would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a journalist in Italy

1 stranger working as journalist in Italy have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 8.0 / 10. 39% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 44% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
8.0/ 10
stress
8h/ night
sleep
21h/ week
free time
$2,226/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade39%
would not trade44%
unsure17%

95 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • chaotic6
  • peaceful6
  • lonely4
  • meaningful4
  • enviable3
  • exhausting3

one journalist in Italy has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with journalists in Italy, 95 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 39% would trade, 44% would not, 17% are unsure.

compared with journalists worldwide, journalists in Italy are less happy by 0.3 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.3 points, and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Italy, journalists in Italy are less happy by 0.8 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 2.2 points, and less envied by 20 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all journalists globally
    happiness -0.3stress +1.3would-trade -6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Italy
    happiness -0.8stress +2.2would-trade -20.0pp

fragments