one journalist in South Africa 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 South Africa, 95 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 35% would trade, 54% would not, 11% are unsure.
compared with journalists worldwide, journalists in South Africa are less happy by 0.3 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.3 points, and less envied by 10 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.
compared with everyone else in South Africa, journalists in South Africa are happier by 0.5 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.7 points, and less envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.