What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it? The author apparently doesn't care about them. Flagged.
What about them?
>The author apparently doesn't care about them.
Why should they? They report on a specific survey/study, they don't try to pander on some every set of people that did X or Y.
Second, their subject is totally different -- how people in general, and statistically, feel about their lives at various ages. Not about what happened to some people and what they did about it.
Because it raised a complaint that had nothing to do with the article. That's an article describing the results from a study on self-reported happiness level through people's lives from 1.3 million sample respondents. The question about "misfortune" is a non sequitur -- out of the scope of the study, and irrelevant to it. Those 1.3 million random samples will still have the same distribution of misfortunes as the general population in their countries.
Second, because it didn't seem to differentiate between a journalist reporting on the results of a survey, and those that did the survey.
Third, because I don't find the article poorly written, and I don't particularly care whether someone "flagged" it or not -- reminded me of those who bring up "cancelling their subscription" in their letters to the editor.