would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a phd student in Australia

1 stranger working as phd student in Australia have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 7.0 / 10. 34% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 48% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
7.0/ 10
stress
6.3h/ night
sleep
18h/ week
free time
$2,031/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade34%
would not trade48%
unsure18%

104 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful11
  • exhausting9
  • lonely5
  • stable4
  • chaotic3
  • depressing2

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.

how this compares

  • vs all phd students globally
    happiness -1.1stress -0.7would-trade -8.0pp
  • vs all lives in Australia
    happiness -0.9stress +0.6would-trade -11.0pp

fragments