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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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