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ZH cites a fraudulent monstrosity fraudulently titled "Global Happiness Score", produced by a Soros NGO and co-authored by Jeffrey Sachs, who led Soros's war against Russia in the '90s.

The fraudulence is blatantly obvious. This score is not about happiness at all. It's about wealth and social safety nets. The variables are EXPLICITLY DESIGNED to give the top score to Scandinavia. The survey should be titled "Global Scandinavianness Score".

And waddaya know!!!! Amazing! Scandinavian countries score highest in Scandinavianness!

I'll give them one point for an accurate understanding of economics: Their wealth measure is the LOG of GDP per capita. Most "economists" use linear measures, which are easier to calculate but irrelevant to human perception.

The actual OBSERVABLE happiness of actual people is PRECISELY opposite to these scores. Africans and Brazilians and Indonesians are MUCH happier than Finns and Swedes. Brazilians smile all the time. Finns never smile in their entire life.

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This measure is trivially valid in the same way that IQ tests are trivially valid. IQ tests are designed to measure success in theory-based university courses. That's all. They work pretty well to predict success in theory-based university courses. That's all.

Using IQ to measure or predict ANYTHING ELSE is nonsense.

Does success in theory-based university courses connect to success in life? Somewhat, but even if you narrowly define success as working in a job that requires credentials from a theory-based university, many other factors are more important. Innate status, extroversion, determination, ambition.

In the totally insane demonic evil-soaked Sorosian lands, we place tremendous weight on credentials from a theory-based university. It's our official equivalent of noble rank. But even here the causation is mostly backwards. The people who can get through a theory-based university without dropping out or committing suicide are the same people who will do well in high-ranking jobs. Ambitious, competitive, high innate status. There are some exceptions, but not a lot.

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Footnote: Looking up the funders of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which is a branch of the UN, I find this list:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Dubai Expo 2020
Electricité de France International N.A. Inc.
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Switzerland (for the DDPP)
The William, Jeff, and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Développement International (France)
Svenska PostkodStiftelsen
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Ted Turner
The Kresge Foundation
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Notice a certain geographical tendency?

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