On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:56 PM, tfast wrote:
> If you all would just read the methodology used you would see that the
> rankings were created using how nationals rank their own government
> in terms
> of corruption. So all it really tells us is how each country's own
> perception of corruption about its state. Comparison therefore
> must be in
> the form that x nationals perceive corruption in their country as
> +/- a
> problem than do y nationals in their country. It is a trivial poll.
Not necessarily. It's a measure of trust. That's not unimportant.
Doug