Hasnain says:

This was really interesting and I’m glad for the scientific process by which they (failed to) reproduce past research and thus come up with improvements and novel insight.

Wonder how long this will take to be as popular as the original study though

“Past research has found that experienced well-being does not increase above incomes of $75,000/y. This finding has been the focus of substantial attention from researchers and the general public, yet is based on a dataset with a measure of experienced well-being that may or may not be indicative of actual emotional experience (retrospective, dichotomous reports). Here, over one million real-time reports of experienced well-being from a large US sample show evidence that experienced well-being rises linearly with log income, with an equally steep slope above $80,000 as below it. This suggests that higher incomes may still have potential to improve people’s day-to-day well-being, rather than having already reached a plateau for many people in wealthy countries.”

Posted on 2021-01-26T06:41:06+0000