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A recent Ipsos survey showed that China was the country with the highest proportion of happy people, at 91%.[1] A 2020 survey by Harvard researchers showed sim

A recent Ipsos survey showed that China was the country with the highest proportion of happy people, at 91%.[1] A 2020 survey by Harvard researchers showed similar results. [2] People living in autocracies are far less dissatisfied with their systems of government as democracy minded Westerners like myself might assume. [1] https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-happiness-six-points-last-year-73-now-say-they-are-happy https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-happiness-six-points-last-ye... [2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

bouncycastle 4y ago
Of course you are going to say that you are happy, you don't want to provoke your local autocracy...
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  in Russia very few people will say they are hapoy. The might nit elaborate why
charlieyu1 4y ago
Doubtful about this. World Happiness Report 2023 has China at rank 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
- Leary 4y ago
  The studies had different methodologies and questions. The Ipsos one asked respondents: "Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not happy at all?" The World Happiness Report asks the respondents: "think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale." Unsurprisingly, the two offers very different conclusions.