Machines + Society #11: Happiness; The Greatest Sumo; Pointless forecasting
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machines + society Mako Shen | June 30, 2020 I Am Happy (?) Human research often requires subjective self-reports. Yet there is strong evidence that we are bad at introspection. How do we reconcile the two? Here I claim that the inconsistency of human introspection is greatly underrated, which casts reported well-being as a methodology into serious doubt. I then explore some of the implications.
Machines + Society #11: Happiness; The Greatest Sumo; Pointless forecasting
Machines + Society #11: Happiness; The…
Machines + Society #11: Happiness; The Greatest Sumo; Pointless forecasting
machines + society Mako Shen | June 30, 2020 I Am Happy (?) Human research often requires subjective self-reports. Yet there is strong evidence that we are bad at introspection. How do we reconcile the two? Here I claim that the inconsistency of human introspection is greatly underrated, which casts reported well-being as a methodology into serious doubt. I then explore some of the implications.