What country is the happiest? Interpreting ordinal-scale data


In this post, I model the latent distribution of national happiness using self-report data, and discuss the difficulties involved in ranking countries by “average” happiness.


Often, when studying people’s subjective experiences, data are collected by asking survey participants to report on an ordinal scale how much they agree with a statement or question. Continue reading What country is the happiest? Interpreting ordinal-scale data