happiness - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

The “Science and Policy” of this metric is the subject of a 2023 textbook written by Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this metric, two types of which are encompassed by Ed Diener’s concept of SWB. An annual UN-sponsored report calculates this measure by asking people to place themselves on Cantril’s ladder.

ANSWER: happiness [or subjective well-being; accept World Happiness Report or Gross National Happiness; accept Wellbeing: Science and Policy; prompt on welfare]

[10h] This economist’s namesake “paradox” claims that, despite income being highly correlated with happiness metrics in the short run, higher incomes do not yield increased happiness over the long run.

ANSWER: Richard Easterlin [or Richard Ainley Easterlin; accept Easterlin paradox]

[10e] This small, landlocked, country created an index of Gross National Happiness under the same government that displaced many of the Lhotsampa people to nearby Nepal.

ANSWER: Bhutan [or Kingdom of Bhutan; accept Druk Yul or Druk Gyal Khap]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Brandeis	Brown	0	0	10	10
Yale	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	10	0	10	20
Harvard	MIT A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
CWRU	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	JHU B	10	0	10	20
JHU A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Mount Sinai	10	0	10	20
NYU B	John Jay	10	0	10	20
Swarthmore	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
RIT	MIT B	10	0	0	10
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Illinois	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Indiana	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
rusty shackleford	New Young Whigs of America	10	0	10	20
abg academy	Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	10	0	10	20
UChicago C	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	#OpenToBuzz	10	0	10	20
Guelph perfomative male competition	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Ottawa 67s	McGill Fartlets	10	0	10	20
Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	10	0	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
In Search of Lost Clues	Free Win	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	0	10	10
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
Knorr Stock Clue	Of Mice and Penn	10	0	10	20
Bristold	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	10	10	10	30
question mark	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	10	0	10	20
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	Galactic Ombudsmen	10	10	10	30
The Bit and the Penndulum	Chimp Brisket	0	0	10	10
Coughing Baby	Washed Scrubs	10	0	10	20
To buzz is to be perceived	why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	10	0	10	20
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	Hail to the Sheaf	10	10	10	30
UNC B	Planck Sinatra	0	0	10	10
VT A	Wise Duke	0	0	10	10
UNC A	VT B	10	0	10	20
Truman State	WashU Bouba	10	0	10	20
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	WashU Kiki	0	0	10	10