would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a police officer in Australia

1 stranger working as police officer in Australia have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 4.0 / 10, average stress 9.0 / 10. 27% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 57% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
4.0/ 10
happiness
9.0/ 10
stress
5.3h/ night
sleep
18h/ week
free time
$7,180/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade27%
would not trade57%
unsure16%

120 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • exhausting6
  • enviable5
  • lonely5
  • depressing4
  • peaceful4
  • stressful4

one police officer 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 police officers in Australia, 120 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 27% would trade, 57% would not, 16% are unsure.

compared with police officers worldwide, police officers in Australia are less happy by 1.2 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.0 points, and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Australia, police officers in Australia are less happy by 1.9 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 2.6 points, and less envied by 18 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all police officers globally
    happiness -1.2stress +1.0would-trade -6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Australia
    happiness -1.9stress +2.6would-trade -18.0pp

fragments