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>Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function. No, sorry, that was not my intent at all. My point was to get you out o
by ianferrel 4y ago
>Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function.
No, sorry, that was not my intent at all. My point was to get you out of thinking of well-being as a purely psychological phenomenon.
Dead people have no well-being at all. Many advances improve our well-being in an objective sense by keeping more of us alive longer. This is not a psychological effect.
And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond.
- bumby 4y ago>And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond What is the correlation to outcomes? Are you saying a negative outlook correlates to higher survivability so we are primed to view everything through a more negative lens? That makes sense from an evolutionary psychology point of view, but doesn’t explain why we the well being wanes rather than just stays low from the onset.