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I visited the happiest country. I wish I could unlearn its secret

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27 points prawn | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 03:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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wtcactus ◴[01 Sep 25 06:44 UTC] No.45090127[source]▶
These self reported metrics (like mostly everything else in Social Sciences) don’t mean anything.

Finland sits about middle in the EU on suicide rates.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/e...

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1. nis0s ◴[01 Sep 25 07:36 UTC] No.45090410[source]▶
This kind of comment is under appreciated. I don’t have any opinions on the OP, but I really hope that more people would start using statistics published by neutral third-parties, whenever someone puts out some news article, to either support or counter the information presented in the article they just read.