On Sep 9, 8:19*pm, "Just Plain Burr" wrote:
"bpnjensen"

Nope - 10 is *best*, 0 is totally hopelessly messed up. *Read the
legend at the bottom, all will become clear. *U.S. is in the best 11%
of the list.

Misreading things like this, and repeating them, is what makes vicious
and untrue rumors start until almost everyone accepts the lies as
truth. *Please be careful.

Bruce Jensen

Bruce, 10 is best under "Amount" but 1 is the best under "Rank"

DEFINITION: A CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption
as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10
(highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt). Includes police corruption, business
corruption, political corruption, etc. Data for 2005.

Re-read and look.

Burr

What's to reread? We (the US) came in 17th from the best...but over
130 from the bottom. I already read all that you just posted. I'd
still like to see the methodology, and an objective rating of how
reliable and evenly qualified across the board the sources were.

I stand by my original comments. The top 11% is a lot better than it
could have been.