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What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? The author apparently doesn't care about them. Flagged

What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? The author apparently doesn't care about them. Flagged.

JacksonGariety 9y ago
Why downvote this comment? Genuinely curious. The article poorly is written and makes all sorts of potentially offensive assumptions. Why have it on the front page?
- alansammarone 9y ago
  I don't think a scientific study loses any merit if it doesn't make people reading it happier.
- coldtea 9y ago
  >Why downvote this comment? Genuinely curious. Because it raised a complaint that had nothing to do with the article. That's an article describing the results from a study on self-reported happiness level through people's lives from 1.3 million sample respondents. The question about "misfortune" is a non sequitur -- out of the scope of the study, and irrelevant to it. Those 1.3 million random samples will still have the same distribution of misfortunes as the general population in their countries. Second, because it didn't seem to differentiate between a journalist reporting on the results of a survey, and those that did the survey. Third, because I don't find the article poorly written, and I don't particularly care whether someone "flagged" it or not -- reminded me of those who bring up "cancelling their subscription" in their letters to the editor.
coldtea 9y ago
>What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? What about them? >The author apparently doesn't care about them. Why should they? They report on a specific survey/study, they don't try to pander on some every set of people that did X or Y. Second, their subject is totally different -- how people in general, and statistically, feel about their lives at various ages. Not about what happened to some people and what they did about it.

What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? The author apparently doesn't care about them. Flagged.

JacksonGariety 9y ago

Why downvote this comment? Genuinely curious. The article poorly is written and makes all sorts of potentially offensive assumptions. Why have it on the front page?

alansammarone 9y ago
I don't think a scientific study loses any merit if it doesn't make people reading it happier.
coldtea 9y ago
>Why downvote this comment? Genuinely curious. Because it raised a complaint that had nothing to do with the article. That's an article describing the results from a study on self-reported happiness level through people's lives from 1.3 million sample respondents. The question about "misfortune" is a non sequitur -- out of the scope of the study, and irrelevant to it. Those 1.3 million random samples will still have the same distribution of misfortunes as the general population in their countries. Second, because it didn't seem to differentiate between a journalist reporting on the results of a survey, and those that did the survey. Third, because I don't find the article poorly written, and I don't particularly care whether someone "flagged" it or not -- reminded me of those who bring up "cancelling their subscription" in their letters to the editor.

coldtea 9y ago

>What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? What about them? >The author apparently doesn't care about them. Why should they? They report on a specific survey/study, they don't try to pander on some every set of people that did X or Y. Second, their subject is totally different -- how people in general, and statistically, feel about their lives at various ages. Not about what happened to some people and what they did about it.