This is self-reported happiness, in a culture where admitting depression or unhappiness is shameful. By objective measures usually associated with depression and unhappiness--suicide, alcoholism, etc Danes are below average.
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This is self-reported happiness, in a culture where admitting depression or unhappiness is shameful. By objective measures usually associated with depression and unhappiness--suicide, alcoholism, etc Danes are below average.
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ReplyDeleteOf course it's "self-reported happiness."
Who else can tell you how happy you are?
Denmark the World's Happiest Country
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