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Be You a Splitter Or Lumper

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Lumpers gather, clump, fuse, combine and meld. Splitters separate, divide and rupture. The Lumper's huge nuclear fusion bomb makes bigger bang by fusing hydrogen than Splitter's uranium fission bomb. So where do your allegiances lie? Is it fusion or fission, lump or split? Do you focus on the differences or else, put similarities forward when deciding how to pigeonhole things. How do you group, class and codify friends? Overgeneralizing is risky, it ignores individuality. But overs-splitting can be dicey too, with far too much variation to grasp and hold while you consider your options. It is more about what's on the labels, than the size of your hands, nets or boxes.

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