Comment on No Desire To SpendparentComments−zurn13y> "Lifestyle" and "standard of living" are unquantifiableHappiness can be quantified, then there are things like the Human Development Index, Satisfaction With Life Index etc.−debacle13yPlease quantify happiness.−zurn13yIt generally works by asking people how happy they are + statistics to work out causes or correlations. I gather psych people do this kind of thing all the time about seemingly subjective things.WP on measuring happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness#Measures_of_happines...More generally: Measures of emotion: A review <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756702/>;
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> "Lifestyle" and "standard of living" are unquantifiable
Happiness can be quantified, then there are things like the Human Development Index, Satisfaction With Life Index etc.
Please quantify happiness.
It generally works by asking people how happy they are + statistics to work out causes or correlations. I gather psych people do this kind of thing all the time about seemingly subjective things.
WP on measuring happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness#Measures_of_happines...
More generally: Measures of emotion: A review <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756702/>;