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World Happiness

I was never overly impressed with self-reported happiness indices and country rankings, until I read this 2022 working paper by Blanchflower and Bryson. The paper still uses self-reported data but this time, they add the negative dimensions of personal experience to tabulate a net happiness score. Combining data on around four million respondents from theContinue reading “World Happiness”

PAIN AS A TEACHER

I learned of Abraham Wald from Jordan Ellenberg’s How Not To be Wrong.[1] It is a story well worth reading because it provides a poignant reminder of the power of thinking critically. During WW2, Wald was part of the Statistical Research Group working through real-time problems to make strategic decisions. Among the questions posed to the groupContinue reading “PAIN AS A TEACHER”