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It is common to separate groups of things — species, people, languages, software models, etc. — into {{w|Lumpers_and_splitters|categories}}, but different people may do this in different ways. "Lumpers" work from the ground up by focusing on similarities among individual things to create larger categories, while "splitters" do the opposite, taking larger categories and trying to find characteristics that are not shared by all members of the group to further divide them into smaller subsets. | It is common to separate groups of things — species, people, languages, software models, etc. — into {{w|Lumpers_and_splitters|categories}}, but different people may do this in different ways. "Lumpers" work from the ground up by focusing on similarities among individual things to create larger categories, while "splitters" do the opposite, taking larger categories and trying to find characteristics that are not shared by all members of the group to further divide them into smaller subsets. | ||