The score is average from three years. I’ll see you again in three years.
According to Reddit posts and comments there is not a single happy country in the world 🥲.
Is it happy or is it least miserable?
As someone working in the field of well-being philosophy/science, I have to say that, although “true”, there are quite a few misunderstandings about what “happy” means in this context and the story it tells about Finland. Actually, there are even alternative measures which present a different picture. For example, see “Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being.”
That being said, Frank Martela, an expert on that topic, wrote a nice article for non-expert people that pinpoints those misconceptions/confusions, and what it tells about Nordic countries in general, and Finland in particular:
Nice, I’m going to celebrate by going to sauna and drinking some Karhu tonight.
I have no strong feelings about this, one way or another
I want to know what was the actual score?
This comes up regularly and I’m fairly certain the survey works by effectively asking people if they are “satisfied”, or “ok” rather than specifically “happy”, and there are language differences at play too.
The joke I heard about a Finn being interviewed for this survey:
Interviewer: “Hello Finn, I am doing a survey, would you say you are happy?”
Finn: “I am fine”
Interviewer: “But Sir, you are currently *on fire”*
Finn: “I am fine”
Interviewer: “Ok, ‘happy’ it is”
I live in Finland and quite content with my life. This “happiness” survey has a sample size of close to 1000 each year for every country. Now imagine a country with more than 1 billion people, does this survey say anything about how the country feels? I am not sure if the sample size is large enough to be generalised in Finland.
Then there is the misleading word “happiness” in the survey. People is Finland are quite content. That means if you never feel a need to have a car, you’re fine with not having it.
Israel is in top 10 despite everything happening there. Makes you think …
Damn, other countries must be really fucked up.
Unemployment rate is one of the highest in EU, I call BS.
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The score is average from three years. I’ll see you again in three years.
According to Reddit posts and comments there is not a single happy country in the world 🥲.
Is it happy or is it least miserable?
As someone working in the field of well-being philosophy/science, I have to say that, although “true”, there are quite a few misunderstandings about what “happy” means in this context and the story it tells about Finland. Actually, there are even alternative measures which present a different picture. For example, see “Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being.”
That being said, Frank Martela, an expert on that topic, wrote a nice article for non-expert people that pinpoints those misconceptions/confusions, and what it tells about Nordic countries in general, and Finland in particular:
https://frankmartela.com/2023/03/20/is-finland-really-the-happiest-country-correcting-five-misunderstandings-of-what-the-rankings-reveal/
Nice, I’m going to celebrate by going to sauna and drinking some Karhu tonight.
I have no strong feelings about this, one way or another
I want to know what was the actual score?
This comes up regularly and I’m fairly certain the survey works by effectively asking people if they are “satisfied”, or “ok” rather than specifically “happy”, and there are language differences at play too.
The joke I heard about a Finn being interviewed for this survey:
Interviewer: “Hello Finn, I am doing a survey, would you say you are happy?”
Finn: “I am fine”
Interviewer: “But Sir, you are currently *on fire”*
Finn: “I am fine”
Interviewer: “Ok, ‘happy’ it is”
I live in Finland and quite content with my life. This “happiness” survey has a sample size of close to 1000 each year for every country. Now imagine a country with more than 1 billion people, does this survey say anything about how the country feels? I am not sure if the sample size is large enough to be generalised in Finland.
Then there is the misleading word “happiness” in the survey. People is Finland are quite content. That means if you never feel a need to have a car, you’re fine with not having it.
Israel is in top 10 despite everything happening there. Makes you think …
Damn, other countries must be really fucked up.
Unemployment rate is one of the highest in EU, I call BS.
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