It is possible to score anything. Want to choose between 5 cars? Use the analytical hierarchy process and give them each a score! Want to choose between Coke and Pepsi? Keep score in the Pepsi Challenge! Employers want to give unbiased appraisals? Score each employee!
We’re a competitive society (and I’ll raise my hand as being one of the more competitive out there). It seems like everything we do has a winner and a loser. There seem to be few win/wins left to us. Is there anything that just is? We go to the movies and score it on Rotten Tomatoes. We listen to a song and rate it on iTunes.
What if we could harness this power and come up with a scale that wasn’t competitive? Maybe a neutrality scale? A Lossless scale? Don’t know what it would look like, but it certainly sounds less stressful.