Comments on: Angus Deaton’s Paper on Happiness http://rufuspollock.org/2007/09/07/angus-deatons-paper-on-happiness/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tom http://rufuspollock.org/2007/09/07/angus-deatons-paper-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-25972 Tom Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:15:45 +0000 http://www.rufuspollock.org/archives/215#comment-25972 <p>I remember seeing this on here a few months ago and thinking it was a pretty striking chart, particularly the fact that it started plateauing at higher income levels. </p> <p>Isn't the whole thing a bit tautologous given the question? If you're in high income country aren't you going to give a high answer given you know you could have been born into a low income country?</p> I remember seeing this on here a few months ago and thinking it was a pretty striking chart, particularly the fact that it started plateauing at higher income levels.

Isn’t the whole thing a bit tautologous given the question? If you’re in high income country aren’t you going to give a high answer given you know you could have been born into a low income country?

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