ABSTRACT

Wodak (2019) persuasively argues that we are not justified in believing that well-being measurements are linear. From this, he infers grave consequences for both political philosophy thought experiments and empirical psychological research. Here I argue that these consequences do not follow. Wodak’s challenges to the status of well-being measurements do not affect thought experiments, and well-being empirical researchers may be justified in making average comparisons even if their measurements are not linear.

中文翻译：

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幸福感测量和线性假设：对沃达克的回应

摘要

Wodak（2019）令人信服地指出，我们没有理由相信幸福感测量是线性的。由此，他推断出对政治哲学思想实验和实证心理学研究的严重后果。在这里我认为这些后果不会随之而来。沃达克对幸福感测量状况的挑战并不影响思想实验，幸福感实证研究人员即使他们的测量结果不是线性的，也可能有理由进行平均比较。