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This reminds me of the debunking of the Losada ratio, which was purportedly the precise ratio of positive to negative emotions you should experience to be menta

This reminds me of the debunking of the Losada ratio, which was purportedly the precise ratio of positive to negative emotions you should experience to be mentally and emotionally healthy: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-of-happiness-debunked-nick-brown https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-... No one had previously even bothered to check the numbers before it became a fundamental tenet of the field.

shawabawa3 5y ago
> which was purportedly the precise ratio of positive to negative emotions you should experience to be mentally and emotionally healthy This doesn't make any sense. It's not a matter of some formula using bad maths, it's the fact that maths isn't applicable to something so obviously subjective I'm surprised it needed debunking at all when the premise is so obviously and immediately flawed