#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
80,000 Hours Podcast
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Is There a Micro Happiness Scale?
People are often asked, how ard you rate how good your life is going from one to ten? Typically they give answers between six and eight. But maybe we could have a micro happy which would be something as good as moving some ron from six to seven or seven to eight on this wellfare scale. And when i think ofo charities, someones i iget to ici, not directly, i don't think any yo actually make people live longer, but and you had hope toit would improve people’s well being and sense of happiness inconsiderably. It's more difficult if you have a broader idea, for example, of portin education, so preserving the
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