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> people are famously bad at self-reported happiness ...especially in cultures where describing yourself as unhappy is seen as a personal failure. Or expressi
by goodpoint 5y ago
> people are famously bad at self-reported happiness
...especially in cultures where describing yourself as unhappy is seen as a personal failure.
Or expressing worries about climate change / soil depletion / ocean depletion / plastic pollution / deforestation is shunned as "being negative".
The amount of downvotes only proves the point.
- lkrubner 5y agoExactly. And even though this issue is sometimes discussed on Hacker News, I suspect that the people who are down voting me don’t know anything about this issue. For them, as a basic primer, I’d point them to the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study