text: There are obvious political biases in the report. In many places, it points out how life is really better in France than the United States, and does so by adjusting statistics, such as those on health care. While the statistical manipulations are often justified, the report tends to use examples in which France does well. But in the area of life satisfaction, in which they report that "people who become unemployed report lower life-evaluations, even after controlling for their lower income," we do not get a comparison of France with the United States; the former would do less well in this regard than on a health assessment. A note of unintended amusement in the report occurs where it states that many Europeans do not trust official statistics, but the report neglects to explain that this is partly because successive governments across Europeincluding in Francehave manipulated data, especially unemployment figures.