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It looks like the data needs to be normalized? People might be assuming different thresholds of happiness, the same way the common response to "are you ok?" is
by aetherspawn 3y ago
It looks like the data needs to be normalized? People might be assuming different thresholds of happiness, the same way the common response to "are you ok?" is yes, and continues to be yes until someone is absolutely miserable.
- v7n 3y agoThis is discussed ad nauseam whenever new happiness indices are published. I agree with you, and guess most people would. These surveys likely have linguistic and cultural nuances that I imagine are extremely hard to normalize for.
- p1necone 3y agoSame thing goes for customer support satisfaction ratings - in some countries people will rate every interaction 5/5 unless something went horrendously wrong, in others something would have to be unusually good to get more than a 3-4 out of 5. Don't measure people across regions via these sort of metrics.
- avgcorrection 3y agoYou lie in “are you ok?” interactions because you are talking with someone and there’s all kinds of considerations like “don’t want to lose face” and “don’t want to bother them”. You can be as candid as you want in an anonymous survey.