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by MichaelZuo 78 days ago
Does anyone even give them credibility in the first place…?

Such an exceedingly complex thing just seems improbable to take at face value, without an enormous amount of proof and well reasoned methodology backing it up.

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I've never seen a press outlet that didn't give them credibility.

A few times they notice that fighting against corruption is known to increase the index at a footnote somewhere. But that's rare.

I meant on HN, who takes mass media output at face value about anything that complex?