Yvain comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 29 July 2011 08:48:02PM 18 points [-]

How confident are you that this reflects the experience of working people rather than how you would feel if you were in their position?

Somewhat confident. I work at a medical clinic. The number of people who come in with physical complaints relating to their job, psychological/stress complaints relating to their job, or complaints completely unrelated to their job but they talk to the doctor about how much they hate their job anyway because he's the only person who will listen - is pretty impressive.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 29 July 2011 08:58:43PM *  19 points [-]

But there's a clear selection bias here; maybe the 10% of people who are most unhappy with their jobs visit medical clinics 5x as much as anybody else.

In any case, thanks for the info.