HH2 comments on An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HH2 15 February 2009 10:03:16PM 0 points [-]

"I wonder... How does one measure grief?"

Posted by: Waldheri | February 15, 2009 at 04:21 PM

Using as a proxy the length of time a person plays the song "Everybody Hurts" on repeat.

Joking aside, I imagine the scale of grief doesn't matter as much as relative values: would you be sadder if X happened or if Y happened? I suppose it could be monetized somehow ("I would pay 5 to avoid X-sadness but 8 to avoid Y-sadness.") but I doubt that would be really accurate except to show relative feelings of grief - in an experimental setting, most people would highball the amounts, but the rankings of what's sadder than what would probably still be accurate.