There's no absolute truth of the matter. I can't just like draw blood from you, and no t tetr personality en are like direct pipe line. To study it quantitatively, we have to put numbers on people rit so we one thing, wen common misconception is that we put people into categories. We actually don't te the best scientific evidence suggests that there's not categorical differences between people. It's all in a continuum. Most people are somewhere in the middle. That's why things like amber vert is so popular,. Or like the extraverted introvert, or the introverted extraverza. Yet it's called being in the middlea normal dist normal curve
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