--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Bosco D <[email protected]> wrote: > > RESPONSE: Where does it leave the supposed "14 scientific > surveys of thousands of people in India"?? Are those surveys > anymore scientific than the 6 friends that Rajendra spoke to > on Dec 27, 2010 [1]?? Perhaps I am missing something here. >
The surveys conducted by Transparency International are more scientific and better at assessing the level of corruption at any given time than talking to 6 friends. > > RESPONSE: I think all we can say in the context of this > thread is that some spin doctoring is ongoing perhaps in the > defense of all things "scientific". > The facts that I referred to can be independently verified at the following Transparency International website: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results > > Besides reading news reports on a daily basis, > communicating with family and friends in Goa/India and > gleaning information from various online forums and websites > like Goanet it is easier to agree with Rajendra that > corruption in India has increased in the last 10 years. > This assessment is subjective and emotional spin-doctoring guided by a reader's or moderator's own biases, not backed by data from an independent watchdog such as Transparency International. For example, Goanet is a poor source of factual information. Most of what gets posted on it is crap. Reading it is sure to mislead people. Cheers, Santosh
