I have an intuition that if you tell a bunch of people you’re extremely happy almost all the time (e.g. walking around at 10⁄10) then many won’t believe you, but if you tell them that you’re extremely depressed almost all the time (e.g. walking around at 1⁄10) then many more would believe you. Do others have this intuition? Keen on feedback.
In my experience, people with mania (the opposite of depression) tend to exhibit more visible symptoms, like talking a lot and very loudly, laughing more than the situation warrants, appearing overconfident etc. While people with depression are harder to notice, except in severe cases were they can’t even get out of bed. So if someone doesn’t have symptoms of mania, it is likely they aren’t manic.
Of course it is possible there are extremely happy people who aren’t manic, but equally it is also possible that there are extremely unhappy people who aren’t depressed. Since the latter seems rare, the former seem also rare.
If many more people are extremely happy all the time than extremely depressed all the time, the bunch of people you describe would be managing their beliefs rationally. And indeed I think that’s probably the case.
I have an intuition that if you tell a bunch of people you’re extremely happy almost all the time (e.g. walking around at 10⁄10) then many won’t believe you, but if you tell them that you’re extremely depressed almost all the time (e.g. walking around at 1⁄10) then many more would believe you. Do others have this intuition? Keen on feedback.
In my experience, people with mania (the opposite of depression) tend to exhibit more visible symptoms, like talking a lot and very loudly, laughing more than the situation warrants, appearing overconfident etc. While people with depression are harder to notice, except in severe cases were they can’t even get out of bed. So if someone doesn’t have symptoms of mania, it is likely they aren’t manic.
Of course it is possible there are extremely happy people who aren’t manic, but equally it is also possible that there are extremely unhappy people who aren’t depressed. Since the latter seems rare, the former seem also rare.
If many more people are extremely happy all the time than extremely depressed all the time, the bunch of people you describe would be managing their beliefs rationally. And indeed I think that’s probably the case.