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ars · on March 25, 2018

> a survey of the happiness

It's not possible to measure happiness by asking people.

I remember reading a study about, maybe someone can find it.

The only thing you can measure (or ask about) are proxies to happiness.

ncallaway · on March 25, 2018

Since "happiness" by definition is subjective, how do you determine what the proxies to happiness are?

How do you correlate something to "happiness" (to determine its a proxy), if you can't measure happiness directly?

I mean, I agree that there's some significant problems in surveying a population, but I'm not aware of any other way to measure something subjective like happiness. I'd love to read the study you're referencing if you can find it.