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− | It is common to | + | {{incomplete|Created by a FAT CATEGORIZATION META-PEDANT NAMED ANNA- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | It is common to categorize groups of people into certain categories. "Lumpers" lump what might at first seem to be distinct categories of people into the same categories, while "Splitters" do the opposite: split what seems to be a cohesive group of people into smaller categories. The comic itself categorizes [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] into those two types of categorizers. Megan describes herself and Cueball as as both being categorization pedants, lumping the two distinct categories of people into one, while Cueball subcategorizes Megan into a specific type of lumper: a meta-lumper, since the people Megan was categorizing were themselves lumpers. This makes Cueball a meta-splitter. | ||
− | The | + | The opening line of the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy reads (as translated into English), “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In the title text, Randall is drawing a parallel between this line and the lumper/splitter distinction because the line talks about a group of things being similar (happy families) and another group being different (unhappy families). |
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− | + | Most people (especially the children) are happy when their family is lumped together as opposes to when it is split apart (divorce). | |
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