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diegocaleiro comments on Happiness Logging: One Year In - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: jkaufman 09 October 2014 07:24PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 10 October 2014 02:26:37AM 1 point [-]

One thing worth mentioning about introspective accuracy is that the numbers people give are similar across cultures, across time for a single person, and they lit similar areas of fMRIs (Layard 2005). What about using a 1-5 scale?

Comment author: jkaufman 10 October 2014 11:06:44AM 2 points [-]

What about using a 1-5 scale?

To some extent I already am. I've never scored my happiness above 8 or below 4, though I can imagine being in states outside that range. This same preference for leaving room for more extreme future experiences would lead me to use a 1-5 scale as a 2-4 scale.