{"id":4230,"date":"2018-09-27T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T02:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T02:25:40","slug":"finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren’t Happy about It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the <\/span>World Happiness Report<\/i><\/a> <\/i><\/span>announced recently that <\/span>Finland is the happiest country in the world<\/a>, we Finns reacted the same way as we have reacted to other top rankings in various international comparisons: we criticized the methodology of the study, questioned its conclusions and pointed to the shortcomings of Finnish society.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time something like this has happened. When the World Economic Forum <\/span>ranked<\/a> <\/span>Finland as the most competitive economy in Europe in 2014, the chief executive of the Finnish Chamber of Commerce, Risto Penttil\u00e4, felt obliged to write an <\/span>opinion piece<\/a> <\/span>for the <\/span>Financial Times<\/i> <\/i><\/span>where he tried to prove that the results couldn\u2019t be right.<\/p>\n

This time it is my duty, as a Finnish expert on well-being research, to explain why the happiness of the Finns has been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n

More particularly, I\u2019ll argue that there are four separate ways to measure happiness\u2014and depending on which one we choose, we get completely different countries at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the World Happiness Report announced recently that Finland is the happiest country in the world, we Finns reacted the same way as we have reacted to other top rankings in various international comparisons: we criticized the methodology of the study, questioned its conclusions and pointed to the shortcomings of Finnish society. It\u2019s not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-16e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}