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Happier Lives Institute Measuring Wellbeing Course
Test your knowledge on the Measuring Wellbeing Course -
Video 3: Are subjective wellbeing measures reliable?
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Which of these is NOT an example of subjective data we rely on?
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Movie ratings
Book ratings
Net Promoter Score
Net Profit
How can we reduce the number of people misreporting scores on wellbeing surveys?
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Punish incorrect answers
Ask more questions
Remove incentives to lie by promising anonymity
Only survey honest people
Which of the following measures can and have been manipulated and misreported? (Tick as many as apply)
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GDP
Profit Margins
Hospital Waiting times
Wellbeing scores
School Grades
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Why is the fact that migrants' wellbeing scores adapt to their new countries' baseline important?
Because it shows that...
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we have a moral duty to open borders
differences in wellbeing scores between countries are due to differences in living conditions, not just cultures using the scales differently
immigration is beneficial for the receiving country
people use the wellbeing scale linearly
Out of the following list select ALL things which are positively correlated with wellbeing.
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Wealth
Pollution
Health
Crime
Poverty
Commuting
Freedom
Time in nature
Safety
Perception of corruption in government
Friendship
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What does the “non-linear scale” concern suggest?
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People don’t answer surveys honestly
A one-point increase may mean more to some than others
Scales should be in words, not numbers
Wellbeing can’t increase after a point
What was the result of HLI’s pilot study in 2023 about how people use scales?
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People didn’t understand the question
Most said they used the scale linearly
Most said they avoided extremes
Most said they thought the jump from 1 to 2 was smaller than 9 to 10
What is a Schelling point?
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A government wellbeing policy
A natural, predictable choice people converge on
A type of statistical error
A method for scaling wellbeing
How does the concept of Schelling points support scale linearity?
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It shows randomness in answers
It proves economic theory is wrong
It suggests people default to predictable answers and the most predictable answer is to use the scale linearly
It shows people love symmetry
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason to trust subjective wellbeing data?
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Migrants adapt to their new country's average
Wellbeing correlates with expected factors
It eliminates all cultural bias
We use subjective data to inform decisions in many other aspects of life
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