I'd say tailor your questions carefully. For instance:
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Direction Sort - towards or away from... what do you want in a job?
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...seems to me to be gearing itself "towards". Of course metaprograms are not either/or, but points along a spectrum, and highly contextual, as I'm sure you've already learned. Furthermore, we can be standing close to one end of a sorting spectrum and facing the other. Even
furthermore, if you're dealing with people face to face, tonality, speed of speech, and gestures can give as much or more information than verbal answers.
That said, even if I were only going to see a written response and my goal was to say "X is exhibiting towards / away from sorting" I'd want to open up the question more: "What will your ideal job be like?" and then take t/af cues from the answer.
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sort - necessity / possiblity .... wy did you choose this job?
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This one seems open enough to elicit answers along that spectrum.
I'm probably having difficulties working out what questions to ask to be able to interpret whether they are one of the other
ie: toward or away
necessity or possibility
active / reflective
big picture / specific details
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Are you allowed to frame questions as hypothetical situations? so for big picture / details, "You've decided you want to throw a party soon. What are your thoughts on the subject, and what do you do next?" Vary the types of questions based on: How might I notice someone's sorting frames in real-world situations? For instance, some people plan a party down to the last detail, while others call up a few friends and say "Come on over!" Most people are somewhere between those two points on the spectrum.
What other situations can you imagine (other than all of them

) where people reveal how they sort reality?
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Hope this explains it better.
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It does indeed. I hope anything I had to say helps.