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Hi, Steve Merski here with a short episode of Science Talk.

Scientific Americans Mark Fischetti ventured to Vancouver this past weekend

for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. While there,

he spoke with Roli Russell, a social scientist at the Sand Hill Institute in Grand Forks, British Columbia.

Russell presented new research making the case that there are other indicators besides gross domestic product that are better markers for how well people are doing in their pursuit of happiness.

Here's Mark.

So we're at AAAS with Raleigh Russell and we're talking about life satisfaction, happiness, really amongst nations.

And tell us a bit about the recent research and what sort of the major factors are to people's life satisfaction.

All right. Well, I guess we know that there are a lot of different drivers of life satisfaction and happiness

at a kind of personal scale.

But then when we scale up, a lot of those get lost and we seem to rely more along the lines

of financial capital as a representation of general well-being.

And our work is kind of focused on trying to demonstrate what

role, relative role, other forms of capital like human and social capital or natural capital

play in determining our well-being. So, so right. And GDP, in terms of nations, has been

kind of used as a proxy for how well-off people are or think

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