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return1 on May 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-...

> Happiness is the one thing we should be optimizing for

here s some more spurious correlations. Countries with very high happiness have some of the highest suicide rates. happiness might be dangerous to the survival of the species. We should optimize against it

https://medium.com/@dtg319/happier-countries-are-more-suicid...

anoncake on May 29, 2019 [–]

I don't think you can debunk a scientific paper written by multiple professors with a blog post on Medium.

return1 on May 29, 2019 | [–]

Why yes, multiple other professors have found it.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/happiest-places-po...

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