would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a student in China

1 stranger working as student in China have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 43% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 43% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
8.1h/ night
sleep
19h/ week
free time
$485/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade43%
would not trade43%
unsure14%

51 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • exhausting4
  • stressful3
  • lonely2
  • stable2
  • enviable1
  • meaningful1

one student in China 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 students in China, 51 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 43% would trade, 43% would not, 14% are unsure.

compared with students worldwide, students in China are less happy by 1.4 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.6 points, and less envied by 14 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all students globally
    happiness -1.4stress +0.6would-trade -14.0pp
  • vs all lives in China
    happiness 0.0stress 0.0would-trade +4.0pp

fragments