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Current happiness measures provide meaningful information about how happy people are.

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1.Current measures plausibly capture how anxious, cheerful, and satisfied people are.
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2.Even simple self-report happiness measures correlate well with friends' reports, smiling, physiological measures, health, and longevity.
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1.Self-report measures capture hedonic affect but systematically exclude Aristotelian eudaimonia, which requires objective flourishing conditions.
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2.A person adapted to deprivation may report high satisfaction while lacking genuine well-being, making convergent validity with smiling or friends' reports equally distorted.
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1.Kahneman's distinction between experiencing self and remembering self shows retrospective self-reports measure narrative reconstruction, not actual hedonic states.
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2.Correlations with longevity and health reflect socioeconomic confounds, not the validity of happiness measures as such.
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With the explosive rise of empirical research on happiness, a central question is how far, and how, happiness might be measured.[11] There seems to be no in-principle barrier to the idea of measuring, at least roughly, how happy people are. Investigators may never enjoy the precision of the “hedonimeter” once envisaged by Edgeworth to show just how happy a person is (Edgeworth 1881). Indeed, such a device might be impossible even in principle, since happiness might involve multiple dimensions

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