【NPR新闻】美国人有多幸福?(2/3)
简介：But are you happy?
参与方式：全文听写
Deaton
Justin Wolfers
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201302/201302110926414645210.mp3Deaton started with my age, 31 years old.
You're on the downslope, and things will get a bit better after you're about 40.
Justin Wolfers agreed with that assessment.
Are you married?
Yes.
Married people are happier than non-married people. Do you have children?
I have one child, and one on the way.
I'll say both congratulations, and from your happiness perspective, I'm sorry to hear that.
Parents report, on average, being less happy than non-parents.
But that's under dispute.
And here is where the happiness data gets complicated. There's a dispute about whether or not kids make us unhappy, and truthfully, there's dispute about a lot of happiness data, because there's a problem with how we measure happiness.
The standard is, actually, just to go out and ask people. It could how happy are you today?
I'm okay. I'm not, like, overjoyed, but I'm okay.
Well, happiness is relative.
I'm in a relatively positive mood right now.
But if you change the question...
So it turns out we get very different answers when we ask people about the here and now, rather than about evaluating their life so far.
With that one, you get more positive answers.
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