OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 5, 2007 @01:25AM from the voting-on-the-merits dept.

Tapani Tarvainen writes "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."

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Re:OpenISO.org by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-05 01:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is so dull sounding I'd rather read the troll about the guy who eats poop.
Re:Thanks, Intarweb reporter by arthurpaliden · 2007-09-05 01:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But is that not what modern news reporting is all about?

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In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-05 02:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Voting alongside Microsoft corrupts YOU!
Re:OpenISO.org by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-05 02:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yes, we knew we could count on you to poo-poo any idea threatening your monopoly, Ballmer.
Re:Thanks, Intarweb reporter by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-05 02:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sorry, took me five steps instead of the standard four.

1. Recognize that the standard is three steps.
2. ???
3. Profit!