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    It is not the case that Current happiness measures provide meaningful information about how happy people are.

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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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    • 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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