I cannot believe 74% of Canadians or 76% of USians are happy. Absolutely not a chance. Everyone is depressed as shit.
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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Doesn't really match my experience either to be honest. Pretty much everybody I know is generally unhappy about the state of things in Canada.
I know very few people here that are genuinely happy.
I wonder if they polled saudi immigrant workers 
Or women. Or LGBTQ+ people.
Brazil at 83% is only possible if the poll was conducted on a football match day on a Friday.
I imagine a big limitation of this is that it's biased towards people who have internet access, and in countries like Brazil or India that excludes a large chunk of the population.
India is at 84% which I find tremendously hard to believe
84% of people who have internet access and cared to respond to the survey. Seems like internet access alone excludes half the population.
Nice to see a flagmap which includes the Taiwan Province
There is no way Portugal is 79%. I would bet 50% on a good day.
Wish they had surveyed the other AES countries too so I could use it to dunk on libs.
This does need to be further split I think. It looks like both "Very happy" and "rather happy" both count equally, when they are fairly different statements. I imagine most people in most cultures would generally say "Yeah, I'm ok" rather than admit they aren't doing super well. So I'm not sure how useful this data is like this.
I'd also question the translations of "very happy" etc. Depending on how they are translated it could have much more extreme connotations in some languages.
This isn't me assuming this is a "fake" or whatever, just that their methodology is a little lacking for my tastes.
And also this has some real "The international community (plus a view others)" vibes.
Yeah, completely agree with that. It's interesting as a pulse of how people surveyed respond to a fairly general question, but it misses a lot of nuance that would be important to draw any deep conclusions from this. Also worth noting that there is an inherent sample bias in who chooses or even has the opportunity to respond.
How is the work culture in China nowadays? I've heard about the 996 before, did it change since then?
AFAIK 996 is the attention-grabbing exception rather than the rule in China, so I doubt it reflects upon this poll very much.
Ok I see. That's what I expected because I know I wouldn't be happy with that kind of work life balance. 😅
Hopefully the government can crack down on the companies practicing it still.
When I ask, the answer I hear is “No it’s not like that, I work a completely normal 100% of my time, it’s cool”.
I remember seeing a funny post of liberals coping with "communist nations are happier" by saying "well they're happier because of all the propaganda" which even if it was true (it's not) wouldn't that still be a good thing?
It's such a ridiculous premise too, like people are being tricked into being happy. If propaganda worked that way then everybody in the west would be positively ecstatic given that US has the biggest and most sophisticated propaganda machine in history.
Part of it is intent, like they do have the biggest propaganda machine in history, but it's tuned towards making people angry and miserable. The closest thing you have to 'happiness' propaganda are those ads that suggest therapy where if you go for them your boss will fire you.
Money doesn't buy happiness. In unrelated news...
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I did not expect Mexico to be that high.
There is absolutely no way Argentina has 74% happiness with the insane economic collapse, inflation, inability to get basic food products and goods, and other necessities.
Self-reported studies are not very useful in collecting usable data, they are typically utilized to confirm biases.
This kind of online polling has no way to control variables that can invalidate the premise. Were these questions translated, or are we asking 22k that could afford a secondary education if they are happy? What is the demographic of people who have access to the Internet in the country? Did we just ask 22k people attached to the royal family of Saudi Arabia if they were happy?
This "study" raises more questions than it attempts to answer.