Zócalo Public SquareIf You’re Happy and You Know It, Take A Survey – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 If You’re Happy and You Know It, Take A Survey https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/16/if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it-take-a-survey/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/16/if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it-take-a-survey/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:58:51 +0000 Zocalo http://new.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=38907 John Stuart Mill famously wrote, “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.” Ask yourself to put a metric on it, and it’s even worse. And yet we do need measurements of happiness, for all sorts of reasons. If nothing else, we need to fend off social policies that promote misery instead of well-being. So then it’s just about finding a way to put some numbers on it. In advance of “Does Happiness Keep the Doctor Away?”, a Zócalo event, we asked several people in the feel-good business to weigh in on the following question: How should we most effectively measure happiness?

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]]> John Stuart Mill famously wrote, “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.” Ask yourself to put a metric on it, and it’s even worse. And yet we do need measurements of happiness, for all sorts of reasons. If nothing else, we need to fend off social policies that promote misery instead of well-being. So then it’s just about finding a way to put some numbers on it. In advance of “Does Happiness Keep the Doctor Away?”, a Zócalo event, we asked several people in the feel-good business to weigh in on the following question: How should we most effectively measure happiness?

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