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> Happiness is the one thing we should be optimizing for here s some more spurious correlations. Countries with very high happiness have some of the highest s
by return1 7y ago
> Happiness is the one thing we should be optimizing for
here s some more spurious correlations. Countries with very high happiness have some of the highest suicide rates. happiness might be dangerous to the survival of the species. We should optimize against it
https://medium.com/@dtg319/happier-countries-are-more-suicidal-a-look-at-the-world-happiness-report-and-suicide-d5f44f69ce8e https://medium.com/@dtg319/happier-countries-are-more-suicid...
- anoncake 7y agoI don't think you can debunk a scientific paper written by multiple professors with a blog post on Medium.
- return1 7y agoWhy yes, multiple other professors have found it. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/happiest-places-post-highest-suicide-rates/ https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/happiest-places-po...