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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 Role of Happiness Measures in Government

Happiness should be the ultimate measure of how we judge policy. Can you really say what a seven means is really comparable across those cultures? There's this question about international comparisons of happiness scales that people use the questions in the same way. We can put numbers on our feelings to say how good or bad we feel and that's not really that different from just saying how we feel using words if you say like oh I'm really happy or like I'm quite happy or I'm sad.

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