Thanks for your suggestions, but our problem is seating for the reception, not so much the actual ceremony.
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AFAIK, no to the former, and definitely no to the latter: I just made them up. I was hoping that the statements would provide interesting discussion points in addition to personality discrimination. Big 5 tests seem like they might be a little bit less fun for guests to fill out. I acknowledge my lack of academic rigour here.
Thanks Manfred!
Here’s my current proposed list of statements for people to (strongly) agree/disagree with—no neutrality allowed. The idea is to identify people on a farmer/forager axis, and then to cluster people according to similarity (subject to other constraints).
If there were cheap, tasteless, food pills that gave you all the sustenance you need, I would barely eat other food.
I believe it’s everyone’s duty to vote.
I regularly exercise when I should be working.
I think governmental oversight unnecessarily slows down the progress of science.
My clothes are definitely more about style than comfort.
I believe that travel is over-rated.
The wedding in question is actually mine; I’m very grateful to alexflint for posing the question here.
The plan is to provide a brief online (fun, hopefully) test to all guests, and then use a combinatorial optimisation algorithm to assign seating so as to maximise conversational compatibility.
thanks gwern. I have replaced #2 and #4 with I would like more nuclear power in my country. and I keep the place where I live clean and orderly. Thoughts? This probably needs to go live on the weekend.