https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2023-03/Ipsos%20Global%20Happiness%202023%20Report_0.pdf
I cannot believe 74% of Canadians or 76% of USians are happy. Absolutely not a chance. Everyone is depressed as shit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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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.
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.
