would you trade lives?
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a profession seen from many lives

life as a doctor

6 strangers working as doctors have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.3 / 10, average stress 7.8 / 10. 41% of voters say they would trade lives with someone in this work; 43% would not.

averages across this group

6
lives
6.3/ 10
happiness
7.8/ 10
stress
5.9h/ night
sleep
11.8h/ week
free time
$12,364/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade41%
would not trade43%
unsure16%

437 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • peaceful30
  • lonely22
  • stable19
  • depressing16
  • meaningful16
  • chaotic13

six doctors have shared an anonymous fragment of their life from 6 countries, most often Australia, Canada, and Germany. every entry is one person describing the shape of their own days — hours of sleep, money, stress, what they actually feel — to be read and weighed by strangers who never know who they are.

they report an average happiness of 6.3 / 10 and an average stress of 7.8 / 10, they sleep around 5.9 hours a night and have roughly 12 hours of free time per week, the median reported monthly income (across 6 fragments that disclosed one) sits near $12,364 USD-equivalent.

asked whether they would trade lives with doctors, 437 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 41% would trade, 43% would not, 16% are unsure.

the reactions readers most often leave on doctors' fragments are: peaceful, lonely, and stable. these tags are picked from a fixed list, so the words above carry the weight that strangers actually placed on them, not anything we paraphrased.

the fragments are spread unevenly across the world. by volume, the top countries for doctors in our dataset are: Australia (1 life, 39% would trade); Canada (1 life, 46% would trade); Germany (1 life, 44% would trade); Japan (1 life, 43% would trade); Mexico (1 life, 62% would trade).

where doctors have shared from

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