The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
a year from then it turns out your happiness is no different from baseline from the day before that event happened right statistically um and that is shocking right like I know these results I can quote the paper but like if you told me today laori you you know you walk out of Studio you get hit by a car your paraplegic how would you feel in 2026 I'd be like my life is still really crummy um but statistically that's just not going to happen
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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all these mechanisms that we have of hedonic adaptation means those things aren't going to affect you for as long as you think