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Data are cultural: what does that mean for understanding well-being?

For thousands of years philosophers have asked: ‘What makes for the good society?’, or ‘the good life?’ Susan Oman revisits these questions, asking how data help us understand – differently. 

Susan Oman
8 min read

Ideas of culture have been fundamental to thinking about well-being - how we experience it and what it even is: whether personal well-being, societal well-being, happiness, contemplation, or feelings ...

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