Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
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Are You Sure You'll Be Happier?
There is a lot of work these days, an trying to make people happier. In the uk,. it's a whole in other i wouldn't call it an industry, but it's its sponsored by government. My friend lord layard has started a movement that promotes happiness. There's a great deal of that happening. And i don't know how successful it is because the criterion for evaluation, it's very difficult to conduct evaluations on those things. People who know they've been subjected to intervent s cannot really answer those questions honestly even if they try. So the way to test whether things are successful would be to ask a person's friends, has he become, she become happier?
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