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Gunnar Miller's avatar

There's yet another wrinkle: after deploying all that opaque 'methodology,' you can still enrage any residual happy people by misusing a superlative and call it the 'Least Happiest Countries' list.

One can have a list of 'Least Happy Countries,' or name the 'Most Unhappy Country,' or even stretch it to 'Unhappiest Country.' But 'Least Happiest' belongs to the same logical swamp as 'Single Best'; by definition, 'the best' is already simply the best."

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Ryan M Allen's avatar

ha yes! There are some ridiculous stuff that could further be deployed. All often used in the real versions without much critique, I might add, too!

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Gunnar Miller's avatar

I have to admit I use "least favorite" all the time ;-)

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Mike Bergin's avatar

Well played!

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Ryan M Allen's avatar

Thank you 🙏!

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