We also turn to alternative datasets to try to find evidence in favour of
Blanchflower and Oswald’s paradox, analysing data on both happiness and life
satisfaction from the World Values Survey. These data suggest a robust relationship
between life satisfaction and development, but also yielded no evidence of an
unhappiness paradox in the case of Australia. Indeed, if anything, Australians are happier
than one might expect based on her Human Development Index, or levels of GDP per
capita.