Advice like that makes me doubt the science a bit. As well as the famous result that people are happier without children. It's certainly interesting to measure such things and ponder what it means, but perhaps the results should make them wonder if they have been measuring the wrong thing.
Dan Ariely pointed out that for example mountaineering seems to be all misery, but people seek out the experience again and again. I wouldn't be surprised that with their technology, the happiness researchers would conclude that mountaineering does not bring happiness at all. Like if they ping the mountaineer every ten minutes to ask "how happy are you right now on a scale of 1 to 10" all they would see might be misery.
Also Nassim Taleb noted in "antifragile" that a happiness researcher he knows who is famous for the "more money doesn't bring more happiness" result is himself very keen on being paid well for his speaking gigs.
Advice like that makes me doubt the science a bit. As well as the famous result that people are happier without children. It's certainly interesting to measure such things and ponder what it means, but perhaps the results should make them wonder if they have been measuring the wrong thing.
Dan Ariely pointed out that for example mountaineering seems to be all misery, but people seek out the experience again and again. I wouldn't be surprised that with their technology, the happiness researchers would conclude that mountaineering does not bring happiness at all. Like if they ping the mountaineer every ten minutes to ask "how happy are you right now on a scale of 1 to 10" all they would see might be misery.
Also Nassim Taleb noted in "antifragile" that a happiness researcher he knows who is famous for the "more money doesn't bring more happiness" result is himself very keen on being paid well for his speaking gigs.