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Which is why many organizations are moving away from numeric scales and forced rankings, replacing them with narrative feedback and “360-degree” reviews.

“The World Cup will bring millions of new Americans into the pipeline. Over the next few years we expect these new fans to progress through the pipeline, giving soccer a substantial enough fan base to tip the scales and help make soccer part of the ongoing mainstream sports conversation. I am confident that the World Cup will enable soccer to reach that critical mass.”

Redistricting efforts are usually done every decade on the decade; this modification, midway through the usual time frame and just a year before the midterm elections, is both highly unusual and a transparent effort to tip the scales in Democrats’ favor.

But it’s also necessary, because Republicans did it first—and in that sense, Prop 50 isn’t so much tipping the scales as rebalancing them, assuming it passes.

Asymmetric ethics: How do you align values across vastly different cognitive scales?