There must be a ton of people doing this scrubbing. In a less corrupt era, we'd be flipping those people for evidence, all the way up the chain.

Hamilton and Madison must be reeling in their graves about where our checks-and-balances are falling short.

I hope it's less horrific to hear that an old term, used at least since the 1970s, in a lot of contexts for planning--e.g, hospital scheduling, entitlement to benefits, or (since it's used for student enrollment), financial aid determination.

I bet a pivot table is just the tool to help sort out these niches 😅

Could it be that the collection of data has changed the behavior?

"Well, I would buy this gown, but not if I have to log it in the spreadsheet"...

Just a different style of formidable.