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Of spoilage memes and happiness
17 Apr 2006 07:25 pmComments re-enabled (they were turned off by accident)
In the revised spoilage meme, or "fortunate life" meme, that I originally saw in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kightp's journal and posted about here, there were three questions labeled "Mental Sanity":
( ) Are you generally happy?
( ) Do you “enjoy” your job?
( ) Do you have time for hobbies?
It seemed to me that every single person who filled out the meme (at least the ones I saw) took a point for each of these. (This pleased me—I thought it was the most accurate measure of satisfaction in the survey.)
Also, many people who scored "low" on the meme's "fortunate" scale said they were quite satisfied with their lives and thought they were very fortunate, thank you.
hmms_sio sent me an article, "Happiness and Public Policy" by Richard Layard, published in The Economic Journal 116 (March 2006). It has a soft science tendency of making equations out of everything, which I find annoying (it reminded me why I didn't go into sociology after all) but I thought these bits were interesting: 
( Read more... )
In the revised spoilage meme, or "fortunate life" meme, that I originally saw in
kightp's journal and posted about here, there were three questions labeled "Mental Sanity":( ) Are you generally happy?
( ) Do you “enjoy” your job?
( ) Do you have time for hobbies?
It seemed to me that every single person who filled out the meme (at least the ones I saw) took a point for each of these. (This pleased me—I thought it was the most accurate measure of satisfaction in the survey.)
Also, many people who scored "low" on the meme's "fortunate" scale said they were quite satisfied with their lives and thought they were very fortunate, thank you.
hmms_sio sent me an article, "Happiness and Public Policy" by Richard Layard, published in The Economic Journal 116 (March 2006). It has a soft science tendency of making equations out of everything, which I find annoying (it reminded me why I didn't go into sociology after all) but I thought these bits were interesting: ( Read more... )
