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Interesting, I didn’t know that. I just remember my country being at the bottom that’s why I said it that way.

I just looked it up, corruption index: www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2023 places most corrupt at the bottom. But I think you are right because corruption ranking should have the most corrupt on the top. I.e you are 1st at corruption

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’re right, they’ve ordered it that way, but they’ve specified that their scale is…

[scored] on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)

So you weren’t wrong about what you read.

But without that context there, being “in the top ten of a corruption ranking” would usually mean the country is very corrupt, haha

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- levi@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think that these measures are very flawed, speaking as someone who lives in a 3rd world country… I’ll take a wild guess and say that the main indicator or at least one of the main indicators is the number of incidents where government officials were exposed of doing something illegal or morally unethical…
  
  If that’s the case they’ll end up with heavily flawed diagrams due to the lack of data and reports coming from these corrupt nations
  
  speaking from life experience now, you can’t tell me that in the US for example, you can crtisize a certain party, and your punishment is going to be some accusations or a lawsuit at worse… But here you’ll be kidnapped and erased from existence ( even if you’re a nobody yes, a simple Facebook post is enough )… And then tell me African countries are not that corrupt compared to a secular nation… I’ll just tell you : give me a break
  
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  - otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, the scale they used was just a bit counter-intuitive.
    
    It wasn’t a rank from most to least corrupt, it was more of a “corruption score”, where higher numbers means more corrupt. But they ordered it like ranks, so #1 (least corrupt) would be first.
    
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    levi@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, I read this…
    
    The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the globe by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
    
    And it completely threw me off, it makes sense that the most corrupt country is an african country…
    
    Somalia Rank 180
    
    I was like… no way Somalia is cleaner than Denmark… lol
    
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