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How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael Plant)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Subjective Well-Being

The new stuff I've been doing in effective altruists came from is that I was aware of all of this background research in social science, which was trying to measure happiness. So when you say happiness, I assume you mean both positive and the negative, like reducing suffering and improving well-being? But really, we'd like to be using well-views. We'd like to have some measure of happiness. That's a fairly obvious place to start.

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