On April 30, Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program, along with Gallup and the Center for Open Science, released the first findings of their ongoing worldwide survey of human flourishing. The press usually ignores such studies, but the scale and results of this survey have drawn the attention, including from the New York Times and Atlantic.
The survey’s delineation of “flourishing” includes health, happiness, meaning, character, relationships, and financial security, and included interviews with over 200,000 people in 22 countries, chosen for geographic, cultural, and religious diversity. It will re-interview each year for the next five years and may be the widest such survey ever attempted.
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