I think the way to make sense of this (And e.g. surveys that ask this question) might be tautological. “It’s 0-10 on whatever opaque process I use to answer this question.”
This makes the absolute number nearly meaningless, though given human habits you can probably figure out approximate emotional valences of 0, 1-3, 4-5, 6-9, and 10. But depending on how stable the average person’s opaque mapping of emotional state to number is, it might still yield really interesting cross-time and cross-population comparisons.
I think the way to make sense of this (And e.g. surveys that ask this question) might be tautological. “It’s 0-10 on whatever opaque process I use to answer this question.”
This makes the absolute number nearly meaningless, though given human habits you can probably figure out approximate emotional valences of 0, 1-3, 4-5, 6-9, and 10. But depending on how stable the average person’s opaque mapping of emotional state to number is, it might still yield really interesting cross-time and cross-population comparisons.