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Are international happiness rankings reliable?

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3 points bikenaga | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 15:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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incomingpain ◴[09 Sep 25 16:23 UTC] No.45184293[source]▶
Not in the slightest; if they were, the measurement would be rather useless anyway. It's easy to skew the issue temporarily; typically this works for 5-10 years and then it comes crashing down. Greece did it come 2004 until their crash in 2009.

GDP per capita is the most reliable and closest measurement to a happiness measure.

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1. DaveZale ◴[10 Sep 25 00:35 UTC] No.45191580[source]▶
Really?

So money buys happiness?

I'm not entirely convinced.

But I'm all ears. Tell me more if you have a moment.