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Originally Posted by Brutha  The problem isn't that you can't measure it but that you can measure it a thousand different ways and different ways to measure it will result in different public policy. |
Subjectivity is indeed a problem that science has a difficult time incorporating. And you're right, there are a thousand different ways to measure it and there is no right way and no wrong way but there is a best way to measure it.
I'm curious, would you make that same argument about depression, or social anxiety? Or the many other mental health problems that exist? They are mental states just like happiness, the only major difference being that they're on the other side of the spectrum. If all our measurements and understandings of those problems are as bankrupt as our understanding of things like happiness then what business do we have trying to use psychology to treat those people?
And fwellers, if they were happier what would the problem be?
