Talk:Corruption in Uzbekistan

Second reversion of edit unsupported by its cited source, the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index.
I reverted, for the second time, an edit which makes this assertion:


 * Corruption in Uzbekistan is a widepread [sic] issue having been ranked as the 31st most corrupt country in the world by Transparency International

The source cited for this assertion is Transparency International’s 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index. The 2022 CPI does not support this assertion, for several reasons:

1. The Corruption Perceptions Index does not try to measure corruption, because corruption is often hidden. The CPI measures the perception of corruption. See “Why is the CPI based on perceptions?” on The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is Calculated.

2. The Corruption Perceptions Index does not attempt to measure the perception of corruption throughout a country. It only considers corruption in the public sector. See “What kind of corruption does the CPI measure?” on The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is Calculated.

3. If I understand the reverted edit correctly, it asserts that if a reader goes to the ranked list of countries on the cited CPI webpage, they will see, at the top of the list, the country whose public sector is perceived to be the least corrupt, and at the bottom of the list, the country whose public sector is perceived to be the most corrupt. So far so good. If the reader then counts upward 31 places from the bottom of the list, they will find Uzbekistan. This part of the assertion is not correct. If the reader counts upward 31 places from the bottom of the list, they will find Afghanistan. They will have to count upward 52 places to find Uzbekistan.

Some additional problems are:

1. The apparent misspelling of “widespread.”

2. It is Uzbekistan’s public sector which is being ranked by Transparency International. The reverted edit seems to assert that the widepread issue [sic] is being ranked.

3. The assertion omits to mention that the cited reference (the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, published in early 2023) only covers one year.

So one correct version of the assertion would be:


 * Corruption in Uzbekistan is a widespread issue, Uzbekistan having been ranked by Transparency International in 2023 as the country whose public sector was perceived to be the 52nd most corrupt in the world during the preceding year.

I removed the incorrect assertion because it is incorrect. If some other editor wants to add a correct version, they are welcome to do so and I will certainly leave it alone. I’m not going to add a correct version of the assertion because (speaking only for myself) I don’t think the assertion improves the article.

best wishes,

Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 07:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)