The Six Personality types.

Yinko

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I've known a lot of men who don't fit in those boxes at all, and it seems like the Gamma and Sigma categories came into being after the term "Alpha" gained a negative stereotype. What is more telling is the Betas fill the majority of the male population by that system, which doesn't really make sense when you look at how people really are.

Overall, I am unconvinced.
 

colorles

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These terms are animal pack terms. Like wolf packs. The alpha is the leader of the pack. The beta(s), however, is a misunderstood term. Beta is the second highest rank. The second in command(s) to the alpha; and, in reality, are potential alphas themselves that are simply being out-alpha'd by a greater alpha.

The rest of the ranks are random middle ranks - the actual masses of animals or people would fit into the mid ranks. omega is an animal or person on the fringes of the pack or society. in a wolf pack, if the going is well and the pack needs more wolves, the omegas will have a place. if going is tough, the omega are the first sent packing out of the pack.

Sigma is a strange one - and the one most commonly adopted by edgy loners. But a sigma wolf would be a wandering wolf that has the potential to challenge an alpha and become alpha of a pack, but hasn't yet or would rather just be a lone wolf.

Either way these "ranks" are fluid in real life - someone who is an alpha in one group setting, may be mid-ranked or lower in another. It's pretty pointless and cringe to apply these terms to humans.
 

King Krávoka

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