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Authoritarian leaders are seen as far more trustworthy than politicians in more openly democratic countries across the emerging world, according to data compiled by the World Economic Forum.
Leaders in Singapore, the Gulf states and Rwanda are rated as having the highest ethical standards in the emerging markets, closely followed by their Chinese and central Asian counterparts.
In contrast, politicians in democracies such as Brazil, Paraguay, Nigeria, Mexico and Romania are seen as exhibiting the lowest ethical standards.
Overall, among the 20 emerging market countries rated as having the most trustworthy politicians in the 2016 survey, 13 are rated as "not free" by Freedom House, a US government-funded non-governmental organisation, with three classed as partly free and just four classed as free.
Among the 20 emerging markets whose politicians are seen as having the lowest ethical standards, not one is classed by Freedom House as not free, with six free and 14 partly free.
https://www.ft.com/content/79d1ce36-8ca9-11e6-8aa5-f79f5696c731
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Text without charts: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2016/10/1823541-polls-show-low-approval-of-the-ethical-standards-of-leaders-in-latin-america.shtml
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:52AM
Confidence is the key to getting a date and to getting a job, which explains why intelligent people are jobless dateless unhappy losers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:35PM
People who are intelligent but not arrogant will find ways to act out confidence. One important thing is to remember that you don't have to be right 100% of the time. You can't be like Gary Johnson trying to think through complex issues on your feet and then fumbling. You just have to be confident. (In fact, being wrong can work in your favor--makes you seem more personable if you can be wrong and admit it.)
Meditate on your positions ahead of time, run with what you have, and be confident that you have good reasons for saying what you're saying. Let the intelligence work when that's needed, outside of the meeting when you can sit down by yourself and crunch numbers and research. Like it or not, humans are social animals first. Social evolved way before the capability to do science evolved.
This is something even introverts can do even if it's draining and not easy. I know because I'm an INTP. Watch what ENTJs do. Those are the ones you're going to have the easiest time emulating.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:07PM
This is something even introverts can do even if it's draining and not easy. I know because I'm an INTP. Watch what ENTJs do.
So you believe in pseudoscientific bullshit spewed from the deepest reaches of the bowels of the social sciences.