A happy probability about happiness (and other) scales: an exploration and tentative defence of the cardinality assumption

Numerical surveys of feelings, such as “How happy are you, on a scale of 0-10?”, are now ubiquitous and increasingly taken seriously by researchers, governments, companies, and others. The data are often treated as cardinal – that is, a difference between a 2 and a 3 for one person is the same as th...

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Autor principal: Plant, M
Formato: Working paper
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wellbeing Research Centre 2024