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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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How to Measure Happiness

Social scientists developed this measure, which says basically rate yourself on a scale of one to 10 with how satisfied are you with your life overall. And I think what some people have argued is that, well, are we really measuring the right thing if we just ask people to rate themselves? The background theory in philosophy of science is called construct validation. Basic idea is that like, to test if your measure of happiness is working, you need to go out there in the world and see how it responds. It turns out when you check to see how life satisfaction and happiness scores behave, they actually do behave inBasically the way you would expect them. That's what gives you confidence that we think we

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