The natural response to all this is to ask whether happiness research is really reliable enough to be used by policymakers. Researchers have paid close attention to this issue, and, after much testing, have found that the answers people give to questions about their well-being seem to correspond fairly well to more objective evidence.
对此最直接的反应就是一个疑问：幸福感研究对政策制定者来说是否足够可信？其实研究者们也在密切关注这一问题，同时在经过大量试验之后，他们发现人们对幸福感问题的回答似乎与某些更加具体的事物高度相关。