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Dr_Manhattan comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Multiheaded 25 January 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 28 January 2012 11:13:45PM 12 points [-]

Self-reported happiness data seems to not agree with this, unless Swedes are keeping some tortured children in the basement.

Comment author: shokwave 29 January 2012 04:22:23AM 8 points [-]

If you took areas of low happiness and made them happy, Swedish self-reporting of happiness would go down, is the gist of this idea.

Comment author: pedanterrific 31 January 2012 08:34:04PM 3 points [-]

The capital of Sweden is Omelas? Hmm...