I made a searchable small group table for wikisocion. I've added every small group I know of and I wanted to check with all of you and see if I missed anything.
http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index.p...e=Small_groups
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I made a searchable small group table for wikisocion. I've added every small group I know of and I wanted to check with all of you and see if I missed anything.
http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index.p...e=Small_groups
Understood nothing of this but it seems cool. What's the purpose of that? I want to know what I can use it for.
The small groups are useful to isolate certain features of type. If you click on the "Source" heading, the first three that will appear will be the 3 classic small groups that are widely accepted and used: quadra, temperament and club. Quadra describes your overall values, club is your sphere of work and activities and temperament is your energy style.
The diagrams on the left are something I came up with, and just tell you what part of the typological space you are dealing with. Any two groups that do not have any points in common are independent and can define a type. Let's say you are trying to type your friend, or yourself. If you know the club+temperament or the quadra+temperament, since both of these combinations don't have any points in common you know the type.
However, let's say you were using Quadra + temperament to type people. Since they both share a point (on the left), they are partly dependent on each other, meaning only some combinations of the two small groups are possible. If you discover someone is in the delta quadra, they must be either a humanitarian or a pragmatist, not a social or researcher. If you type someone with two methods that overlap like this, then if they are compatible, you have more confidence that you are correct. If they disagree, you know either you made a mistake, or you are not using a good criteria. The more small groups that you can use that overlap, the more certain you can be of someone's type. The downside of using overlapping small groups is it can only define a pair of types, in the case of Quadra + temperament, a mirror pair. If you know someone is delta and a humanitarian, that's good because those groups are compatible but you need some other trait to find out if they are EII or IEE.
Since you see people in all different contexts and because your relational roles vary, having all these small groups give you a pretty decent range of tools. Like if you were many going to date someone, their romantic style is probably more interesting that their project group. But if you are working as an HR manager, hopefully those priorities would be reversed.