six key variables contribute to explaining life evaluations. These variables (described in more detail in Technical Box 2) are GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption.
As already noted, our happiness rankings are not based on any index of these six factors. Rather, scores are based on individuals' own assessments of their lives, in particular their answers to the single-item Cantril ladder life-evaluation question.
https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/happiest-states
似乎是heartland最不幸福，人特多的地方和人特少的地方都比较幸福。
这种排名全看作者事先想要什么结果， 就可以设计问卷和统计方法得到预定的结论。
这叫 Lies, damned lies, and statistics见16页:https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf
six key variables contribute to explaining life evaluations. These variables (described in more detail in Technical Box 2) are GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption.
As already noted, our happiness rankings are not based on any index of these six factors. Rather, scores are based on individuals' own assessments of their lives, in particular their answers to the single-item Cantril ladder life-evaluation question.
多年前偶然读到了一本有关尼泊尔的旅游指南。那本旅游指南中讲到，尼泊尔在世界上首先提出了"幸福指数"，这是除了GDP和其他工业，农业，商业，教育等等发展指数之外，第一个有关普通国民对自己身边的生活的感受的指数，尼泊尔国民的幸福指数经常高居世界之首。那本旅游指南告诫那些希望去尼泊尔旅游的读者，如果有一天你去尼泊尔旅游，在尽情享受尼泊尔的绚丽的自然风光之余，请千万不要告诉当地的人，外面的世界也很精彩。