steven0461 comments on Be Happier - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 16 April 2012 12:26:08AM *  20 points [-]

This may be paranoid of me, but I'm always worried that when posts like this use the word "you", people will read it as "you", when they should be reading it as "the average person, who is similar to you to some extent (e.g. in possessing such brain machinery as is humanly universal), and whose properties inform you about your own properties to a degree that depends on background information".

Comment author: steven0461 16 April 2012 05:13:02AM 16 points [-]

It would be pretty neat if we had some happiness research that was disaggregated by such variables as intelligence, cognitive reflectiveness, and introversion. Does anyone know of such research?