[calgoo]

Are saying that Norway speak an exotic foreign language, so we should ignore their results because some people feel that we cant trust their information? Does that mean that we should not compare the US system to these other nations? Who can we compare it to in that case, UK, Australia and New Zealand?

[roenxi]

You can make judgements on uncertain data. It is a reasonable thing to do. It just happens that, given the number of people who muck up data that should be familiar to them, I say there is a lot of misplaced confidence in how well people understand other countries - confidence that often grows because the average person has very limited material to cross-reference with because they can't read a lot of publicly available stuff.

[blitzar]

> Who can we compare it to in that case, UK, Australia and New Zealand?

Australia and New Zealand live upside down, you can not trust any of their data.