points by tekla 8 hours ago

Note the numbers between 2010 and 2025 were in the 72% to 79% range if you read the article. So numbers have not actually increased that much.

ProfessorLayton 8 hours ago

2010 was right after the great recession, and after the people that caused it got bailed out by the government.

  • mswphd 7 hours ago

    2010 is also Citizen's United.

lynndotpy 7 hours ago

Think about it as 25% who disagree to only 11. Less than half of the people who thought corruption is not widespread still think so. Further, the US is now the #1 ranked country in corruption.

I think it's more useful to think about the closed operations on the 0% to 100% range. A change of ~75% to 89% does not seem like much, but "only an 18% increase" is not a closed operation, so it's not so meaningful. You'll see this in machine learning, e.g. 70% accuracy to 75% accuracy is not as impressive as 98% to 99%, despite having a larger change.