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myth_drannonlast Thursday at 5:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

It had a huge drop in positive emotions due to the war with Gaza in 2023. Actually, negative emotions were higher than positive which is sad and expected. But the index includes many metrics that don't change rapidly like GDP, life expactancy.. so any short conflict will not have outsized effect.


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magic_hamsterlast Thursday at 9:52 PM

There might have been a huge drop due to the atrocities on October 7th which caused the Gaza war.

mvdtnzyesterday at 2:29 AM

> But the index includes many metrics that don't change rapidly like GDP, life expactancy..

No it does not. It's one question without regard to GDP, life expectancy or anything else.