one phd student in Netherlands 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 Netherlands, 40 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 47% would trade, 48% would not, 5% are unsure.
compared with phd students worldwide, phd students in Netherlands are less happy by 1.1 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.7 points, and more envied by 5 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.
compared with everyone else in Netherlands, phd students in Netherlands are less stressed by 0.5 points and more envied by 12 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.