Annoying Happiness

The process is quite simple:

  1. You create a personal profile at rankle.biz, which includes an initial self-ranking questionnaire. By doing so you are then able to subjectively rank other members and you are giving permission to be subjectively ranked by other members; all anonymously.
  2. From our member list, you locate the member you would like to rank, and confirm you have identified the correct person. This confirmation process is a multiple choice selection of city of residence, place of employment, phone number, a previous city of residence, a previous employer, and a pet or a hobby; (each confirmation question will present six choices, and you must have correct responses to 5 of the 6 questions to move on). This process is in place to prevent ranking the wrong person, (e.g. John Smith), and also to ensure that you have more than just a passing acquaintance with this person.
  3. Once confirmed, you will proceed to the questionnaire which consists of 50 questions in which you will rank the individual (in each question) on a scale of 1 to 25. Upon completion your questionnaire will go into our queue, and will not be released for viewing until the following qualifying measures are met: A) You have completed a minimum of 10 questionnaires on 10 separate individuals; and B) The composite average of all questionnaires completed by you is greater than 500. (After being released from the queue, if the composite average falls below 500, all questionnaires you have completed will be placed back into the queue until the composite average again exceeds 500. This qualification is set in place to encourage thoughtful feedback).
  4. Any questionnaire, in which the "time spent" completing the questionnaire falls below 75% of your average time spent on all questionnaires (after the first 10), will be flagged and deleted, and you will receive notification, and be given one opportunity to redo the questionnaire.
  5. No member will ever see an individual ranking. Members will have access to their composite score only after they have been ranked by 10 questionnaires completed by 10 other individual members. The composite score will be broken down by question, section or area, and overall ranking, and will be updated with each completed questionnaire. The member will also be able to see the number of completed questionnaires.
  6. You will not be allowed to complete an additional questionnaire on the same member before six months have passed since completing the previous accepted questionnaire. This also applies to the self-ranking questionnaire. Completing an additional questionnaire every six months, will not eliminate previous questionnaires. All validated questionnaires will remain and continue to contribute to a member's composite score.
  7. The questionnaire is designed to flag anomalies. All flagged / skewed data will be pulled from the queue for further analysis and determination. Anomalies may include, but are not limited to, comparatively low scores, comparatively high scores, consistently similar scores---(e.g. Inordinate number of 12's and 13's in one questionnaire), comparatively (as measured against other members) speedy completion times, or inconsistent responses to similar questions.

Our goal is constructive, creative tension, that will lead to productive change, through truthful, thoughtful feedback. We recommend, (although most likely in vain), that you not share your score with others. This is not a contest. We firmly believe that to objectify an individual in such a way diminishes and degrades, and perpetuates the myth, (that has become standard practice for many bureaucrats), that an individual can and should be reduced to a mere number. Productive change will be more efficient with little to no distraction.

The areas we measure at rankle.biz are as follows:

  • Empathy.
  • Work Ethic.
  • Accountability.
  • Passion: (defined as serious, careful consideration).
  • Willingness to Help.
  • Sense of Humor.
  • Desire for Learning and Growth.

It is important to recognize that these areas are as subjectively perceived by others and (in the self-ranking) by oneself; and it will be interesting to note (by oneself) if, over time, one's self-ranking moves to align with one's composite scores, or if one's composite scores move to align with one's self-ranking. The "productive change" encouraged in our goal is upward movement in the lower ranking, (whichever it may be), to align more closely with the higher ranking, followed by coordinated upward movement in both rankings conjointly.

It sounds like a great idea...

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