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Taking Happiness Seriously | Barry Grimes | EAGxVirtual 2022

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The Importance of Subjective Well-Being Measures

subjective well-being has been very neglected in academic research. There are different theories around this but generally like the people who are at the lower ends of the scale it's cheaper to help them. But then this also has a counterintuitive implication that doesn't matter how much pain or suffering you're in your wellbeing will always be neutral or positive. So yeah intuitively it must be somewhere between naught and five but how we figure that out is quite complicated. We're doing this survey in the next few months to get more detail on where people think it is.

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