[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Sort Stuff

## Details

**Reported in** Systems Organize Information in Mind and Nature (S)

**Authors** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E

**Year** 2022

**Publisher** Systems 10(2):44

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10020044) 
10.3390/systems10020044

## In authors' words

### Who or what was studied (sample)

n = 320

### How they did it (methods)

Freely group six familiar items and name each grouping. Coded by three independent raters.

Badges: 3 coders

### What they found (results)

246 unique named wholes. Each item appeared in 42–81 distinct groups (mean 63.33). 2.86 groups per subject. Collapsed to 7 coded groups.

## Commentary

### Response

The only inter-rater reliability procedure in the corpus. Evidence against fixed natural-kind categories for these items — the narrower claim, and the defensible one.

Shows the structure is there

## Questions it bears on

- Q2. [What is organization (O)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/what-organization)
- Q3. [Does this organization (O) exist in the mind, and in what minds produce?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-mind)
- Q12. [What is memory?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/memory)
- Q19. [What is emergence (E)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/emergence)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E (2022). Sort Stuff. Systems 10(2):44.