{"id":14781,"date":"2023-12-06T02:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2024-06-03T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:12:27","slug":"14781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/12\/06\/14781\/","title":{"rendered":"Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was offered a free trip to Finland to learn how to be happy \u2014 one of my biggest takeaways was the importance of being grateful for what you have (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of what they did has anything to do with the metrics used to judge Finland as “happiest”. These surveys are a farce, but the media falls for it every year. Please read my exhaustive write up back when Denmark was the “world’s happiest country”: Denmark Fairy Tales: Is Denmark the happiest country because of this? No. \u2013 Social Panic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note – since then, the method of determining “happiest country” has evolved. I have no plans to update the original story, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “world’s happiest country” myth lives on year after year after year. Finland now pretends it knows why it was identified as “the world’s happiest country”. In fact, the metrics used to determine “happiest” have nothing to do with happiest. The “happiest” title was promoted as sounding better than a metric that measured “well-being” based on things having nothing to do with happiness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-lies","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}