Thursday, September 12, 2013
discussion question for leigh koger for 9/12
since we all respond to different things to make us happy, how would we start to measure happiness? what to we compare it to?
ex. i love animals and i love to sit and watch the nature outside my house. (i live in the middle of nowhere!) it makes me happy to see deer close to the house in the yard eating and strolling around. for the hunter his happiness would be to run in the house and get a gun and shoot the deer. this would cause me great distress but him ultimate happiness with his accomplishment.
so how would we measure happiness accurately?
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"Brain responses, physiological reactions, performances on psychological experiments and answers to survey questions."
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But that is still not a measure of happiness.
So you cannot. Nor should you worry about trying.
I would think it is possible to measure your own happiness. For example, it makes me happy to see my dog jump up and down when I get home from school every day. But I would feel a more intense feeling of happiness if I make a huge sale at my job (I work at Radio Shack and I work on commission). Furthermore, I would feel an even more intense feeling of happiness if I won the lottery. I do feel like asking "How" to measure it is almost impossible although we can feel different levels of happiness.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Chloe. I believe it is possible to measure one's own happiness by comparing responses to stimuli. However, comparing two or more people's happiness is impossible because no two units of measurements would be alike.
Factual question: Who wrote, "Woman is the lesser man,
and her passions unto mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight and as water unto wine."
Answer: Francis Edgeworth
Discussion question: If a unit of measurement of happiness were somehow created, what would we call it?
Here's an article about a world happiness survey:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/measure-happiness.htm