RepGrid can be used as standalone methodology, in preliminary studies for further qualitative or quantitive investigation, or as a complement for validating or deepening results obtained with other methods. Repertory grid analysis is also popular outside academia e.g. in counseling and marketing. Today, various variants of the global concept seem to exist, some more complex than others. According to Slater, 1976 cited by Dillon (1994:76), its use as analytic tool does not require acceptance of the model of man which Kelly proposed. Also within "main stream" RGT, several kinds of elicitation methods to extract constructs and to analyse them do exist.