Anthony McCanny retweeted
The McGill-UofT Wellbeing Seminar is back! Join us monthly for online talks with researchers on key well-being topics. Each 3-month mini-series features two perspectives, followed by a panel discussion. Talks are at noon EST on select Tuesdays. 📷
Today the @pwb_lab and I publish the 2024 Canadian Happiness Report! Confirming the findings of @HappinessRpt, Canadians do feel that the quality of their lives are declining, however they remain very satisfied with these lives (especially before the pandemic)! 🧵
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This project has inspired the @pwb_lab to think about how we can do data collection well, how much subjective well-being data is being impacted by context, and to think again about what questions we ask and when they’re equivalent. I will follow up with a thread soon.
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Oh, finally, we put up all our code and data (except the Gallup World Poll stuff, sorry) to replicate the report on OSF: osf.io/rdzhy/. If you want all the Canadian well-being data in one place, to play with, or for student projects, etc., it might be helpful!
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Anthony McCanny retweeted
Selection makes false findings from sampling & data processing. e.g. Let happiness be constant from birth, increases prob of marriage. As ppl age, more are married. Conditional on marriage, neg corr btw age & happiness. Below: each point a person aging, red = married
Me and my friend @KurtRefling are streaming storytelling games together for the first time. Join us for a wander in our imaginations and maybe yours... twitch.tv/thesdreamteam
Over the last couple weeks, @sofia_panasiuk and I wrote a proposal for a standard of measuring well-being inequality: not Gini, not standard deviations, but reporting full distributions. Anything else has us, as researchers, making value judgments about what matters. Thread here:
How should we measure the inequality of wellbeing within a society? Today, we released a report arguing that the most democratic way is simple: just report the entire distribution. cheung.artsci.utoronto.ca/we… 1/9
Big credit to @WhatWorksWB for publishing the report that inspired us and to @sofia_panasiuk and @felixckc for making this so fun to work on.
As well-being focused governance becomes more and more common, figuring out how to do it in a democratic way becomes so important.
Anthony McCanny retweeted
📆 A brilliant panel assembled by our friend @profcpbl for what promises to be an insightful #wellbeing webinar tomorrow (Tuesday). Do join if you can!👇
Tuesday (Nov 22), join us for a webinar: can gov'ts do cost-benefit analysis based on happiness data?
Humble moderator will press eminent panelists on the details.
You can too; bring your questions.
Mandatory registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regis… #econtwitter #cdnpoli @CIREQMTL
@KashPrime Choosing a mask to buy from useful list put out by masks4canada.org. Two vendors offer Dent-x manufactured "CN95" masks which seem to be different from the CAN95 certification. They're not listed as an Authorized Medical Device by government. Are they trusted?
Also, thanks for putting this great list together! docs.google.com/document/d/1… #Masks4Canada
Anthony McCanny retweeted
Dear @danharmon - I think it's time for you to revolutionize story telling online. Please do that... #tweetingapileofmoneytoyou