Respondents to a questionnaire had to choose between two different types of social situations: one, where their health was better than the rest of the society’s, and the other, where their health was better than in the previous situation, but everyone else’s health was even better than that, so that their relative standing was worse.
Send var spurningarkönnun á nemendur Háskóla Íslands þar sem svarendur voru látnir velja á milli tvenns konar samfélagsástands: í öðru bjuggu þeir við betri heilsu en aðrir í samfélaginu, en í hinu bjuggu allir við betri heilsu, en þar voru svarendur við lakari heilsu en aðrir.