“…The first round of objections to the validity of the SWB approach focused on questioning whether respondents all interpret the subjective scale in the same manner. However, although measurement of SWB appears to rely on an assumption of individual rationality (which a large literature on cognitive bias tells us is unwarranted), SWB has been demonstrated to correlate reliably with many objective measures, such as age [17], income [18], genetics [19], relationships, discrimination against sexual minorities [20], parenting [21], employment and health [22][23][24], innovation [25], living arrangements [26,27], migration [28,29], empowerment [30], environment [31] and mixtures of all the above [32] (although a reviewer of this paper notes a research gap in the meta-analysis of studies of this nature). SWB is also less susceptible than might be thought to measurement bias caused by differences between nations and cultures [33].…”