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Correlational findings

Study Aknin et al. (2009): study US 2004

Public
US laypeople, United States, 200?
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 744
Non Response
Assessment
Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
selection from an online survey company's panel of 2.5 million respondents, answered questions in return for points that could be redeemed for prizes Study 1: respondents report own happiness level and their prediction of happiness of others at different income levels. Study 2: respondents report own happiness level and predict their happiness level at different income levels.

Correlate

Authors's Label
predicted happiness other - Study 1
Our Classification
Remarks
Consider 10 different household incomes and predict happiness of someone at each income level
Operationalization
scale 0-10

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks C-BW-c-sq-n-11-b = Underestimation of happiness of people earning lower levels of household income (< 55,000 USD), accurate predictions for high income categories