Consumers Union, an independent testing organization, rates these filters (www.consumersunion.org).org
In October, the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit research organization, rated Illinois as having the 23rd-best tax environment for businesses among the states; if the new increases had been in place then, the foundation says, Illinois would have ranked 36th.
In addition, anecdotal evidence from the test's administration suggests that the organization rating scale is one that raters apply less consistently.
Google will present a link to those sites' fact checks, together with a bit of additional information about the claim and, of course, whether this organization rated it as true or false (or somewhere in the middle).
Anecdotal evidence gained during the rater norming sessions in 2008 and 2009 also indicated that, although the number of paragraphs is not mentioned as a factor in the organization rating scale, some raters were taking this into consideration when rating writing for organization using the rating scales.
On the other hand, the negative results for the length and coherence variables show that longer essays and ideationally more coherent essays tended to predict lower scores on the organization rating scale, although these relationships are not statistically significant.
The results show that high scores on the organization rating scale are significantly predicted by scores on the content scale (p = 0.000), the number of paragraphs an essay has (p = 0.000) and the number of cohesive devices used (p = 0.015).
In its 2014 report on internet, the organization rated Thailand as "not free".
Freedom House, a non-governmental organization, rates this country as partly free, and it didn't take long to figure out why.
The organization rated Feingold's statement as "mostly true," citing numerous interviews and news reports in which Johnson takes a firm stance against the role of the federal government in student loan programs.
