That having public TV/radio channels immediately reduced one's score on press freedom by half, which needless to say is ridiculous as there isn't necessarily any link; public channels in Western democracies are editorially independent (you could point to Italy as an exception, but Berlusconi's private channels were much more biased towards him than the public ones were - him being allowed to retain his private channels while PM was the real problem, more than any dubious interference which there may have been with the public channels). Although in fairness, compared to how dire their "Security & Safety" calculations are, the one about public TV channels actually seems almost reasonable. The "sexual violence" scores, with 0 being worst and 10 best, for Canada, Germany, Sweden and Albania, are respectively 0.0, 0.1, 0.0 and 9.7. The United States, apparently, had no data. While the data on Female Genital Mutilation somehow seems to exist only for Latin-American countries and Hong Kong, granting all those countries an automatic top score to push up their average, which the EU, North-American and Oceanian countries don't get. The same goes for "Son Preference", although there not everybody gets a top score, for Albania it brings the average down instead of up.

The funny thing is that, in spite of having such blatantly ridiculous parameters and calculations, their results seem surprisingly close to how one would rank countries intuitively, albeit with a number of anomalies in either direction (Hong Kong in third place, while Belgium and Germany are at 32 and 35). I guess they figure if you take enough parameters, things will average out (though that would work better if some countries didn't simply lack data on half the parameters).