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		WalterBright on Dec 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its riva... How would you know that your 6 is equivalent to the other guy's 8? Nobody knows. It's impossible. There are also cultural differences to what "happiness" even means. Any study about happiness is likely to be bogus.

jimmySixDOF on Dec 9, 2024 | [–]

There is actually an annual UN World Happiness Report and there have been various pushes to OKR/KPI Gross National Happiness (see Bhutan for example).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

CatWChainsaw on Dec 6, 2024 | [–]

Then it seems any study about any emotion or subjective interpretation is also bogus.

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