Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data actually be used? This paper is a cautious attempt to contribute to thinking on that question. It suggests a possible weighting method to calculate first-order changes in society's well-being, discusses some of the potential principles of democratic 'well-being policy', and (as an illustrative example) reports data on how sub-samples of citizens believe feelings might be weighted.

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国家福利政策和人类情感的加权方法

政府对人类福祉的概念以及如何真正地对其进行评估越来越感兴趣。作为传统经济指标的替代，一些国家已经开始收集有关公民幸福感、生活满意度和其他心理评分的信息。然而，如何实际使用这些数据？本文是对这个问题的思考做出贡献的谨慎尝试。它提出了一种可能的加权方法来计算社会福利的一阶变化，讨论了民主“福利政策”的一些潜在原则，并（作为一个说明性的例子）报告了关于公民子样本如何相信的数据感觉可能会被加权。