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by Leary 1159 days ago
The studies had different methodologies and questions.

The Ipsos one asked respondents:

"Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not happy at all?"

The World Happiness Report asks the respondents:

"think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale."

Unsurprisingly, the two offers very different conclusions.