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AIphnse t1_iu8hk9x wrote

Reply to comment by MasterZenSay in A bad day that starts out bad is better than a bad day that starts out good by addy_daddy_07

Actually it does, if you start the day at x amount of happiness and you end the day at -x, you’ve experienced a change of -2x of happiness over the course of the day. If you start the day a -x amount of happiness and you end up at -x, your happiness hasn’t experienced any change -2x < 0 therefore a day that starts bad and stays bad isn’t as bad as a day that starts good and ends bad

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External_Loquat_3330 t1_iu8zv2r wrote

You can abuse equations in this sense to prove any point. Using your math, if i start the day at x and end at -x, my total sadness averages out to 0 sadness. If I start at -x and stay at -x then my average sadness is, you guessed it, -x.

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MasterZenSay t1_iu8zhy3 wrote

Not if the rate of change is the same in the good and bad day, which in your example isn't so it isn't a fair comparison. You weren't very good at math word problems, were you?

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