The 1950's were not all that great and they are not coming back

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107. It's not that it's a secret or not

It's a matter of being able to back up your statement in such a way that anyone can see your source for themselves. It's pretty accepted practice on this site because we tend to like discussing facts in this world where it seems too many people are confused about what the difference is between their opinion and actual facts.

As far as I can tell your link is about two people taking an extensive multi-university study and correlating the data into graphs and tables that show what the study has found and writing about it in a way that shows what they deduce as the lack of happiness in modern men and women. It doesn't go very deeply into what this lack of happiness is about, it just compares it to studies done earlier in the 1970s. These papers have not been peer reviewed which in any quality university makes them less than useless. But perhaps these papers were on their way to being peer reviewed, and I'm just jumping to conclusions.

Your statement that women are unhappier now gives the idea that their happiness quotient stands out as being different than the happiness quotient of men. Yet the papers do mention that men are also unhappier. And even though I didn't spend a lot of time reading it carefully once I saw it was no more than a compilation of survey data and hadn't been peer reviewed, I didn't see any real comprehension on the causes of everyone's diminishing happiness.

But I do appreciate that you provided a link. And welcome to DU.