1/3 Debunking UN World Happiness Report and why Finland is NOT the happiest country in the world
The UN report is misleading because it relies on a single metric: Cantril’s Ladder.
This 0-10 scale oversimplifies wellbeing and ignores how country rankings differ when using positive vs. negative affect.
Reliance on one ordinal scale is often mathematically problematic.
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-world-happiness-report-is-a-sham


