Comment on If you went to an island, and formed a new country and forcibly inject everyone there with a drug that makes them happy, you new country could surpass Finland as the "Happiest country in the world"

Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an interesting approach to studying something as hard to define as happiness, but it does make sense to me. Their own explanation:

  How is your ranking calculated?

  Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:

  Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top.

  The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you.

  On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

  This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background.

  The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ll never be above 8 or below 2.

    No matter how bad it could get, there could always “but also there’s snakes on the loose”

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Damn, this question is kind of a mind fuck. I could spend a long time thinking about my answer.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ya, I mean I would definitely be “laying on the floor curled in a fetal position”, but am wailing or sobbing quietly?

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would start with thinking in rougher terms (bad, okay, pretty good, great) and then narrowing it down to a specific number. Overall it is about what you feel so go with your gut.

      It’s a good question imo to at least see how content people are

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