The Harry Potter Sorting Hat = A Terrible Idea?

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Published on July 10, 2017 4:00:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVvDjD47wk

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Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff - we sort into our Hogwarts Houses like the characters from Harry Potter, but how would it work if we actually did it? One psychologist explained why he thinks it would be a negative choice!

Kim Horcher breaks it down!

"At Hogwarts, Sorting Hat results have massive consequences, determining a student’s social and sporting life, academic track, and career. Can any psychological test, applied at such a young age, accurately place every student? Or is the Sorting Hat, like the scientifically dubious Myers-Briggs, pigeonholing people with reductionist pseudo-psychology? "*

*Read more: http://lifehacker.com/why-the-hogwarts-sorting-hat-is-a-bad-idea-1796676216

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