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by rlili 1821 days ago
What are the alternatives?
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Depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you're looking for insights on yourself: then being asked a question, to have the answer you gave fed back to you with a pretense of insightfulness will easily be outcompeted by staring at a mirror for 10 minutes. If you're trying to generate complementary group dynamics: sort people by interests and spread them out.

If you're trying to generate efficient groups: sort people by interests and don't spread them out. Literally the worst kind of systematising will go toe-to-toe with MB.

There isn't a better alternative because the premise you can understand and predict behavior by assigning a few labels based on a few specific questions is bunk science