{"id":13435,"date":"2023-03-21T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2023-03-29T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:51:41","slug":"its-back-the-annual-bogus-happiest-countries-in-the-world-list-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/03\/21\/its-back-the-annual-bogus-happiest-countries-in-the-world-list-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s back: The annual bogus “happiest countries in the world list” 2023!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The metric is based on these factors – none of which measure happiness (read about that background here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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  1. social support<\/li>\n
  2. income<\/li>\n
  3. health<\/li>\n
  4. freedom<\/li>\n
  5. generosity<\/li>\n
  6. absence of corruption<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And, as it does every year, it selects Scandinavian countries as the “happiest” – this is what happens when you define a metric that defines “happiness” as “lives in a Scandinavian country”. It’s total bullshit.<\/p>\n

    This year\u2019s ranking is similar to those in the past, with\u00a0the same Nordic countries taking the top three spots. Just like in 2022, Denmark came in at no. 2 and was followed by Iceland at no. 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Of course, they find an expert to explain the happiness measure – even though, what he cites is not one of the metrics used in the calculation:<\/p>\n

    According to Frank Martela, a\u00a0Finnish philosopher and psychology\u00a0researcher<\/a>, some of the reasons why people in Finland are so happy is because they don\u2019t compare themselves to their neighbors, don\u2019t overlook the benefits of nature, and don\u2019t break the community circle of trust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I wrote about this bogus happiness survey in an 8-part series in the past. Start here:<\/p>\n

    Denmark Fairy Tales: Is Denmark the happiest country because of this? No. \u2013 Social Panic<\/a><\/p>\n

    And like every year, the media morons publish this crap survey and pretend they’ve committed journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s time again for the annual “World’s Happiest Country” bull shit survey results. Using a survey that doesn’t measure happiness, the survey proclaims – every year – the same Nordic countries as the world’s happiest. That’s because the metrics they use define happiness as living in a Nordic country! But again, don’t measure anyone’s happiness. And every year, the media twits fall for this survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies","category-media-propaganda","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}