Disadvantages:
No scoring
Although card sorting aims to identify particular interest and reason configurations in the
view of career choice and not to classify persons, the lack of scoring may negatively
influence the perception of the method’s importance or usefulness. People used to
classical diagnosis might find card sorting less accurate.
Long time for administration
Card sorting generally takes more time than questionnaires. Both as self-administration
and monitored by a counsellor it lasts 90 minutes on the average (Slaney, 1986).
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