Well since you dont have a better system and are as far from being an expert as one can be, maybe you actually should trust people that are smarter and more knowledgable than you especially when their findings match with the results of other experts researching the same topic
Having nothing is better than those indexes.
Im not a cultist and have no desire to be one.
Worship of expertise is a problem, but equally so is the denial of it, you played flawlessly into your own trap
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Damn we got an independent thinker over here lol
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Oh wow denying statements without proofs is so preposterous.
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That’s fine, if you have something to counter it with, however you are denying it on the ground that you don’t believe it, and have nothing substantial to reinforce that belief, which makes your word no better than that of which you are denying
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Id argue that it makes his word worse since hes just a bloke and never has done any research into the topic whatsoever
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No it’s Russels teapot i won’t believe in an opinion that based on nothing.
Now watch as I quote some random logical fallacy instead of adding some basis to my initial claim, look who’s the midwit now 👀
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A logical fallacy ?
Just cough up some counter evidence mate, this whole discussion is pointless because all you’re doing is running circles around the original subject, being corruption affecting quality in a certain nation’s military
Evidence of what ? That thing based on nothing on feelings of “expert” you can’t pretend that statements without proofs is objective thing.
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This is what I mean
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moment
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Oh dear, according to said index the country I’m from rates an 88/100 (2nd in the world), whereas Russia scores a 22/100 (154th in the world, and 4x worse)
Maybe that’s why you are so happy to deny the legitimacy of CPI
You are aware that expert opinions and „feelings“ are a pretty standard set of data commonly used in statistics? Not everything can be pulled from completely objective data that why statisticians sometimes have to do a Direct survey
So on what it’s legitimacy is builded ?
That doesn’t make CPI or other corruption indexes objective
The fact that it’s a recognised metric for most notable anti-corruption organisations, and used as the metric to judge public sector corruption globally
It doesn’t have to be to be relevant