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Within a couple of years, about 1,100 people had enrolled, and more than 300 had completed surveys about their mental health and voice experiences, providing enough data to winnow down more than 150 control-related questions to the 18 strongest predictors of a person’s clinical outcomes and quality-of-life, whether or not they sought treatment or had a diagnosed disorder.

“Dogs don’t have any choice in the matter—and that’s problematic for dogs,” she said, adding that she worries about the ability of pet owners to make realistic quality-of-life assessments about their pets.

That quality-of-life survey, which included residents outside L.A. who cannot participate in its city elections, showed that 49% of respondents had unfavorable views of Bass, up considerably from the prior year.

It’s easy to see why Gladstone describes “The Wedding Banquet” as “a really high quality-of-life project.”

Whatever we feel about the necessity or effectiveness of large-scale social interventions in response to the pandemic, we should all agree that — from a collective quality-of-life perspective — they sucked.