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On income/happiness: "It’s a little easier to see why people would pass along the wrong story here, since it’s easy to misinterpret the data when it’s plotted
by throwaway9324 12y ago
On income/happiness:
"It’s a little easier to see why people would pass along the wrong story here, since it’s easy to misinterpret the data when it’s plotted against a linear scale, but it’s still pretty easy to see what’s going on by taking a peek at the actual studies."
Googling
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/two-wws-professors-release-new-study-income%E2%80%99s-influence-happiness http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/two-wws-p...
"People’s life evaluations rise steadily with income, but the reported quality of emotional daily experience levels off at a certain income level, according to a new study by two Princeton University professors [...]"
So seemingly that has nothing to do with the scale used, but with the definition of happiness. Guess someone didn't look "at the actual study"?