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Here are the metrics they used for quality of life: Community Engagement Social Support Voter Participation Drinking Water Quality Low Industrial Tox

• ncallaway 9y ago
  Was like...a survey of the happiness of the population not at least one of the metrics they used? It seems...like a really silly metric not to include in a quality of life ranking.
  • ars 9y ago
    > a survey of the happiness It's not possible to measure happiness by asking people. I remember reading a study about, maybe someone can find it. The only thing you can measure (or ask about) are proxies to happiness.
    • ncallaway 9y ago
      Since "happiness" by definition is subjective, how do you determine what the proxies to happiness are? How do you correlate something to "happiness" (to determine its a proxy), if you can't measure happiness directly? I mean, I agree that there's some significant problems in surveying a population, but I'm not aware of any other way to measure something subjective like happiness. I'd love to read the study you're referencing if you can find it.