And the Milken Institute, a high-tech research organization, ranks Rochester just 71st out of 315 metropolitan areas based on the concentration of high-tech business.
But Privacy International, a London-based organization, ranked Google last among Internet companies and called it "an endemic threat to privacy".
A national poll in June by the organization ranked corruption as the second biggest problem, after unemployment and ahead of poverty.
Using data from the ICTWSS Database on 25 European countries (adding Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to the countries shown in Table 2) for the years 2000 2009, Visser (2013, p. 16) obtains a simple correlation coefficient of r = 0.80 between the level of employer organization (ranked as strong/medium/weak) and the bargaining coverage rate.
"When you make that comparison, planes get less efficient because they're flying over shorter routes," said Rutherford, whose organization ranks the relative fuel efficiencies of airlines.
Josh Sharpe, the president of the International Flipper Pinball Association, in Chicago, points out that when his organization began ranking players in 2006, the list ran to 500 names.
Furthermore, AIDS service organization staff ranked health care professionals as the most important source of information whereas physicians deemed AIDS service organizations to be relatively unimportant.
― Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a meeting Tuesday with media executives that the company has begun implementing a system of ranking news organizations by trust, relying on user surveys to determine which news sources are "broadly trusted".
In the next month's contest, Ms. Goody's organization was ranked around 100.
To Richard Shea, the president of the federation, competitive eaters deserve as much respect as football and basketball stars, and his organization should rank right up there with the International Olympic Committee or the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
