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After reading up on it, there's nothing about this that builds confidence that it's anything more an indicator of wellbeing than the "MyPlate" USDA guidelines a
by tomnipotent 5y ago
After reading up on it, there's nothing about this that builds confidence that it's anything more an indicator of wellbeing than the "MyPlate" USDA guidelines are for dietary requirements.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoThat's insulting. Please read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011000016633507?journalCode=tcpa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001100001663350...
- tomnipotent 5y agoAnd this is evidence somehow, other than being another research paper in a sea of many? I'm sure there's none of those at the FDA. I mean, the abstract ends with: "Results suggest that there is considerable disagreement regarding how to properly understand and measure well-being." The existence of research does not make something definitive, but I'm always happy to be proven wrong.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoEven basic physical phenomena aren't definitive. That's not how science works. We shouldn't expect a singular metric of wellbeing to rely on for all time. Existing wellbeing measures and models are useful enough to inform practical decision-making and design. What we admittedly lack are measures sensitive enough to indicate when small design improvements are successful. More research needed.