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Exactly. 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

Exactly. 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

goodpoint 5y ago
Oh they are downvoting me as well. I guess the topic of happiness is touchy...
- lkrubner 5y ago
  It’s a sad example of how much Hacker News has gone downhill. I can remember Hacker News 10 years ago, it was a beacon of rational thinking. But nowadays there is a lot more groupthink.