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Perhaps the comment was referencing a myriad of different factors which might affect relationships now that didn't exist in 2014? According to the World Happiness Report 2017, there is a trend which suggests Americans are growing less happy each year. So maybe in the interim of 4 years the world has become drastically less optimistic about intimate relationships... Or not.

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If we are leveling our critical analysis and skepticism to the extreme I would say that all these studies are never settled and the World Happiness Report does not invalidate findings of the other study.

> there is a trend which suggests Americans are growing less happy each year. So maybe in the interim of 4 years the world.

So are you saying that Amricans = World? Please (for example) go to Spain and look about how happiness works differently than America.

Ah, I was not intending for my response to be taken literally, sorry. I was merely trying to show how ridiculous his claim was since there was no rational argument for it.

I'll have to work on my presentation skills next time.

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