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To measure someone's subjective wellbeing (SWB), we survey them about their own feelings using questions like "overall, how satisfied are you with your life nowadays?"

This information may be more useful for understanding the impact of EA work than "objective" measures which try to estimate well-being by looking at external features of a person's life (e.g. how healthy they are or how much money they have).

Posts with this tag may discuss specific measures of SWB, the general use of SWB measures within the EA movement, or other related topics.

Posts tagged Subjective wellbeing

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97Using Subjective Well-Being to Estimate the Moral Weights of Averting Deaths and Reducing Poverty

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862020 Annual Review from the Happier Lives Institute

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77The Comparability of Subjective Scales

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71The effect of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health

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70 Life Satisfaction and its Discontents

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151Donating money, buying happiness: new meta-analyses comparing the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of subjective well-being

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114Health and happiness research topics—Part 1: Background on QALYs and DALYs

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94Effective altruism’s odd attitude to mental health

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74A Happiness Manifesto: Why and How Effective Altruism Should Rethink its Approach to Maximising Human Welfare

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56Health and happiness research topics—Part 2: The HALY+: Improving preference-based health metrics

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126Announcing the launch of the Happier Lives Institute

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68Improving Institutional Decision-Making: Which Institutions? (A Framework)

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42Introduction to the Philosophy of Well-Being

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37Health and happiness research topics—Part 3: The sHALY: Developing subjective wellbeing-based health metrics

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33 Comments on “Using Subjective Well-Being to Estimate the Moral Weights of Averting Deaths and Reducing Poverty”

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