#168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman

#168 幸福计算器 vs. 亚历克斯·戈德曼

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2020-10-29

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Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible -- measure the world's overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • So, pj, Hello.

  • Hello, Alex.

  • Pj how has this year been for you in terms of your mood?

  • I mean, you're laughing, it must have been great.

  • Uh, this year's sucked.

  • This year has been bleak and bad and winter feels bleaker and badder.

  • Yeah, winter's really freaking me out.

  • I'm actually very scared about what winter's gonna be like.

  • Um, how are you doing?

  • Well, it's funny you should ask.

  • So I read this article last, last week in the Times about these researchers who are trying to like,

  • measure and plot everybody's happiness on a day to day level.

  • Everyone in the world.

  • Yeah.

  • And they made this thing that they call the hedonometer.

  • Like hedonism?

  • Yes, exactly, hedonism.

  • Okay.

  • And I was like, okay, I want to talk to these guys because first of all,

  • happiness seems like a very slippery concept that I can't even begin to imagine how one would measure for.