The inspiration behind this story is a Stanford class I read about. Each student in that class, in turn, gets to be the ranker. The ranker must arrange his or her classmates in a line, in order from most influential to least influential. It made me think that, in addition to being pure nightmare fuel, publicly ranking your peers would also be a great reality TV show concept.
Disclaimer: Any resemblance, purely coincidental, yada yada.
