one phd student in Australia 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 phd students in Australia, 104 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 34% would trade, 48% would not, 18% are unsure.
compared with phd students worldwide, phd students in Australia are less happy by 1.1 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.7 points, and less envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.
compared with everyone else in Australia, phd students in Australia are less happy by 0.9 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.6 points, and less envied by 11 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.