Wikirating

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Ratingcodes

Rating methods

The platform provides three methods of rating.

Tuning method

Registered users can determine for each country or company the appropriate rating for their opinion. In this case, each user has only one vote to impede possible manipulation.

• Government debt (% of GDP) - 50% weighting
• Current account balance ( % of GDP) - 20 % weighting
• Growth rate ( in% of GDP) - 10% weighting
• Inflation rate - 10% weighting
• Unemployment rate - 10% weighting

The calculated value is composed of multiples of a " scaling factor ", which is composed of the Human Development Index ( HDI) (60 % weighting) and the Corruption Perceptions Index ( 40 % weighting ), adapted.

Each criterion is calibrated by means of a respective relative minimum and a relative maximum of all countries. In addition, thresholds may be defined in order to avoid distortion values ​​for all criteria. All calculated values ​​are performed using a spreadsheet ( Spreadsheet ).