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

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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. cainxinth ◴[01 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45092483[source]▶
Suicide rates are also an imperfect metric. Suicide has a stigma, which can lead to misclassification as accidents and other types of underreporting. Also, some societies, like Finland, are much more open to the concept of euthanasia than others.