Yes lots of other possibilities, I’m well aware of those. I wanted to emphasize it that the simple truth is, that when people say they are happy, you should take it as evidence they generally are happy or at least not suffering. I did this because if this isn’t pointed out people will avoid updating as much as they should using the possibility of different explanations as a rationalization.
Be honest, do you think you would feel the need to invoke or investigate those alternative possibilities to explain away greater self-reported happiness in nations with lower GINI coefficents? We apply different standards of discourse for different institutions without having good reason to do so.
Politics is motivated cognition all the way down my friend.
This depends not just on your definition of “happiness”, but also on your definition of “say” :) How many pre-Victorian narratives by women/queers are you able to name at all without digging into Google? Only Jane Austen… and Mary Shelley’s mom… and 1-2 others, I bet.
So, a lot of women might have, without having to worry their pretty little heads, “said” that they are happy through the testimony of their kind and caring husbands. Much like the Soviet people reported their happiness and contentment through their lawfully elected, not-at-all-rubberstamp representatives. Note that those second-hand assertions hardly ever mention sexual consent/rape or corporal punishment or other such things that we’re curious about when assessing marriage. So could you please provide me with some statistics for e.g. matrial rape in 1700s Britain, to support your likely claim that it was not a serious problem? I’d be (pleasantly!) surprised if you could.
(What I wouldn’t be surprised at is you quoting Three Worlds Collide about the space of possible attitudes to sexual consent. Well, as you can see sam0345 also has… interesting… views on consent. Isn’t this evidence of how terribly dangerous—not just promising—it might be for us to become less paranoid and more tolerant in regards to patriarchy?)
Yes lots of other possibilities, I’m well aware of those. I wanted to emphasize it that the simple truth is, that when people say they are happy, you should take it as evidence they generally are happy or at least not suffering. I did this because if this isn’t pointed out people will avoid updating as much as they should using the possibility of different explanations as a rationalization.
Be honest, do you think you would feel the need to invoke or investigate those alternative possibilities to explain away greater self-reported happiness in nations with lower GINI coefficents? We apply different standards of discourse for different institutions without having good reason to do so.
Politics is motivated cognition all the way down my friend.
This depends not just on your definition of “happiness”, but also on your definition of “say” :) How many pre-Victorian narratives by women/queers are you able to name at all without digging into Google? Only Jane Austen… and Mary Shelley’s mom… and 1-2 others, I bet.
So, a lot of women might have, without having to worry their pretty little heads, “said” that they are happy through the testimony of their kind and caring husbands. Much like the Soviet people reported their happiness and contentment through their lawfully elected, not-at-all-rubberstamp representatives. Note that those second-hand assertions hardly ever mention sexual consent/rape or corporal punishment or other such things that we’re curious about when assessing marriage. So could you please provide me with some statistics for e.g. matrial rape in 1700s Britain, to support your likely claim that it was not a serious problem? I’d be (pleasantly!) surprised if you could.
(What I wouldn’t be surprised at is you quoting Three Worlds Collide about the space of possible attitudes to sexual consent. Well, as you can see sam0345 also has… interesting… views on consent. Isn’t this evidence of how terribly dangerous—not just promising—it might be for us to become less paranoid and more tolerant in regards to patriarchy?)