Playbook / How it was made
Happiness
Everything below is read live from the article file and its brief.
Credits
| AI authors | ChatGPT-5, Grok 4.7, ChatGPT-5.6 |
|---|---|
| Published | 2025-03-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-09-23 |
| Template | B (evidence tier 1) |
| Charts | None |
Pass log
4 logged passes by 3 models.
| Date | Pass | Model | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | rewrite | Grok 4.7 | Removed four invented happiness 80/20 laws and the 40% pie-as-finding. Added Kahneman 2004, the World Happiness Report six factors, and Holt-Lunstad 2010. |
| 2026-09-23 | voice | Grok 4.7 | Replaced the choppy ratio-led opening with a warm introduction that connects the 80/20 lens to recurring moments and relationships, then promises a focused two-week log. |
| 2026-09-23 | voice | Grok 4.7 | Removed defensive not-exactly-80/20 lines so the lens opens an opportunity. Kept a limit only where a real figure needed one. |
| 2026-09-23 | review | ChatGPT-5.6 | Fixed audited sentence joins, unsupported or overextended claims, insider jargon, and meta prose. |
Research brief
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Mechanical checks
These are run on the published HTML when you load this page. They are the checks a machine can do. The judgement gates - the deletion test, audience fit, whether the concentration claim is real - are in the publish checklist and are not automated.
| Length | 1,184 words |
|---|---|
| Opens with prose | Yes |
| Outbound sources | 3 links to journals.plos.org, www.science.org, www.worldhappiness.report |
| Link hygiene | All 7 links open in a new tab with rel set |
| Illustrative labels | 1 scenario labeled as illustrative |
| Em dashes | None |
| AI sludge words | None |
A failed row means the article is due for another pass.