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2 years ago

in In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy? on Will Wilkinson
Good for you. However, it's better not to use "table" as a verb if you are writing for an international readership.

2 years ago

in What Focusing Illusion? on Will Wilkinson
Why would anyone care a bean about how people say they feel? It would make more sense to keep photographing to see how often they laugh or smile. And that's still not much sense.

2 years ago

in Hindsight on Will Wilkinson
Bonkers. The invasion of Iraq was bonkers and was obviously so. Conservatives should surely understand about the importance of habit and culture; societies are like organic entities - isn't that the old simile? It's pure Holywood to imagine you could convert Iraq into a European (or Japanese, or Hindu....) society in a few years, by force of arms, nearly painlessly. And if you couldn't, then you'd need to deploy repression on a scale far beyond the power of a paltry little army. Rash. Foolish. Bonkers.

3 years ago

in Marathon on Salted Lolly
But could you beat the blind kids' dogs?

4 years ago

in Questioning Layard on Will Wilkinson
Beer-lovers would rather pursue hoppiness.
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