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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A poll inquiring a respondent to express their level of happiness in their lives in terms of their perceived position on a ladder, where their worst possible life scores zero and their best possible life scores ten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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History
Devised by American psychologist Albert Hadley Cantril, Jr. (1906–1969).
