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"...it remains the case that economists, naturally enough, tend to gauge human achievement in terms of gains measured in indexes such as the GDP, GNP, and so on. When they do look at happiness, at least professionally, they tend to rely on pretty unsophisticated measures such as your answer to the question 'how happy are you?' The answers they receive, if you trust them, show certain trends in the huge aggregate but really don't say much about one individual's particular happiness and what affects it."
I have to agree, survey data of happiness data is notoriously fickle.
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