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Scores range from -32 to 37.
Interpreting Your Score
What We Measure
The Life Choices Survey looks at choices individuals make that have been correlated through research with increases or decreases in overall levels of happiness (usually measured by subjective well being), health, and wealth and tries to use this information to develop a score that can predict a person’s likely outcomes in these three areas based solely on those choices. More generally, we want to know how “good” your life is based solely on the choices that you make. As you might imagine, this is a complex task fraught with uncertainties.
Uncertainties
ShouldLabs in general and the Life Choice’s Survey in particular represent ongoing research and as a result your score should not be over-interpreted. Your results can, at best, be looked at directionally, which is to say that the higher your score, the more likely it is that you would be healthier, wealthier (in terms of income, debt and savings) and happier than someone with a lower score.
How much lower?
We have not yet determined how granular our model is, but preliminary findings seem to indicate that we would only see meaningful differences between individuals when the differences in their scores are about 7 points apart. On average, people score between 9 and 15 so if your score is significantly higher or lower than that we would expect for you to feel worse off or better off respectively than those around you.
One last point
Since we are aggregating your scores for health, wealth, happiness and risk (a datapoint we use as a measure of the inherent volatility of a particular decision), two people with the same scores could have wildly different life outcomes. For example, one could have a very high score in wealth that counterbalances a much lower score in happiness, so using these broad results as a diagnostic tool of any kind is not advised. As we learn more, we will be able to provide you with much more granular interpretations of your choices.
Until then, feel free to download our model here, using it you can see more closely at how altering choices can have a positive and negative impact on your life and see in much greater detail how each choice affects your health, wealth, happiness and risk. The model is in constant BETA so caveat emptor.
Yours,
The ShouldLabs Team