Disney Darwin Quiz 1

Derek Bok was recently President of Harvard for 20 years

accurate

A major "discovery of psychologists...is that people are often surprisingly good judges of what will make them happy"

inaccurate

Prosperity is the extraordinarily important goal that the US Dec of Indep. and the French Constitution of 1793 have in common

inaccurate

"Jeremy Bentham gained enduring fame through his pronouncement that the overriding aim of government should be to secure the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people"

accurate

"All in all, therefore, happiness seems to represent a most appropriate goal for government to pursue, just as Bentham maintained more thant two centuries ago"

accurate

GNP is just as - or more- important than GNH

inaccurate

Schools, colleges, and the government should work much harder to increase happiness

accurate

Daniel Gilbert is a (or "the") leading professor of psychology at Harvard

accurate

There are more important things than feelings

inaccurate

"Feelings don't just matter - they are what mattering means"

accurate

"Moral philosophers tried for centuries to find some other way to define good and bad, none have ever convinced the rest (or me). We cannot say that something is good unless we can say what is is good FOR, and if we examine all the many objects and expereiences that our species calls good and ask what they are good FOR, the answer is clear: by and large, they are good for making us feel happy"

accurate

Ability to be tested is the characteristic that makes something a potential object of scientific inquiry?

inaccurate (it's measured)

"It is relatively easy to measure an individuals's happiness and feel completely confident in the validity and reliability of that measurement"

inaccurate

"There will never be a happyometer - a perfectly reliable instrument that allows an observer to measure with complete accuracy the characteristics of another person's subjective experience so that the measurement can be taken, recorded, or compared with another"

accurate (never)

Gilbert's two main points are that happiness is not so important and that happiness can be accurately measure

inaccurate