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by Domenic_S
3693 days ago
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Right, the App surveys suffer from selection bias in a huge way. It's almost the pinnacle of what Silicon Valley gets made fun of for, right: "you're so dissatisfied with your comparatively cushy life that we'll make an app for that!" Yet we've seen [0] that our happiness is relative to our peers. Is the happiest illegal immigrant better off (happiness-wise) than the saddest millionaire? We build our floor on our parents' (families' etc) ceiling. If we build a craptastic studio apartment, it doesn't matter if it's on the 300th floor, we're still unhappy. I guess that's the empathetic way to look at it? Sociology is hard. [0] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/asa-mcb080805... |
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