OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index

"It turns out there's an interesting correlation between Transparency International's 'corruption perceptions index' and voting behavior in ISO's OOXML decision. Countries with a lower score (more corruption) on the 2006 CPI were more likely to vote in favor of OOXML, and those with a higher score were less likely. According to the analysis, 'This statistics supports with a P value of 0.07328 the hypothesis that the corrupted countries were more likely to vote for approval (one-tailed Fisher's Exact test). In other words, simplified a bit: the likelihood that there was no positive correlation between the corruption level and probability of an approval vote, that is, this is just a random effect, is about 7%.' Of course, correlation doesn't prove causality."

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/133219&from=rss

( numen v | 2007. 09. 07., p – 15:56 )

beteg, paranoid ember lehet, aki ilyen felmérést végez:D

ennek ellenére elgondolkodtató. nem feltétlenül ha a korrupcióra gondolunk, hanem esetleg a korrupcióra való hajlammal együtt járó esetleges mentalitásbeli különbségekre. én pl. tutira vettem volna, hogy Magyraország igennel szavaz. Hát mégse. 

int getRandomNumber() {
return 4; //szabályos kockadobással választva. garantáltan véletlenszerű.
} //xkcd