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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-21 00:03
Japan's values are as sobering as expected.
If you don't feel motivated yourself to explore the site from there, your issue.
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Mama wrote on 2011-07-21 00:12
Hm.. it's unfortunate these values aren't represented graphically or in a more user-friendly manner.
interesting info tho.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-21 00:15
In the reportage where they presented it there was a nice map, but I don't seem to find it either.
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Hiccup wrote on 2011-07-21 04:21
This is just one of them propaganda shenanigans.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-21 10:51
Quote from Hiccup;520559:
This is just one of them propaganda shenanigans.
Huh?
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-07-21 13:55
Quote from Sumpfkraut;521039:
Huh?
You know to say. Oh we're the best country cause look how happy our people are compared to yours! Obviously, we must be the best!
I didn't find it too user friendly. The numbers didn't mean much to me.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-21 17:13
Quote from Kingofrunes;521128:
You know to say. Oh we're the best country cause look how happy our people are compared to yours! Obviously, we must be the best!
Oh dear.
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truefire wrote on 2011-07-21 17:32
How does one quantify happiness? And how does a survey with such broad questions on such a subjective subject differentiate between the person who just found their soulmate, the person whose dog was just put down, the person who's been moderately happy their entire life, and the person who has only known misery, among countless other examples? People really only define their happiness by in-the-moment standards. They could have been overwhelmingly happy for most of their life and then something humbling hits them, and they're certainly not going to average out their happiness between all their life and right this moment, or all this year and right this moment. Answering "How happy are you?" is akin to answering "How happy are you right now, while you're thinking about this question, as opposed to how happy you were 5 minutes ago or how happy you'll be in 5 minutes once that depressing thing you were thinking about just now may or may not have stopped depressing you?" And then there's asking oneself whether someone would be compelled to say that they're happy because of societal or familial pressures, or whether they'd say they're happy because of the "There's always someone who's got it worse" logic. And then there's the true nature of the question at hand. It's more or less asking "How happy has this country made you?" in which case it's more likely that people are answering with no concern for their country's impact on them at all, but that's not what the answer will be used to reflect.
In short, what on earth are these numbers supposed to mean?
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-21 19:14
You could always directly ask the guys who set the website up.
Here's the guy behind it, with an email adress provided.
It's just a collection of data really, there's surely far more to it
behind the scenes.
Either way it does provide food for thought, if you don't mind looking at barren charts.
Generally, it's stuff for scientists who are already acquainted with the matter anyway. Which I think is a bit sad.