Socionics is sort of the European version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI) on which I did a small presentation to the group last year. There are a
couple of confusing points about it.

It asks you to describe yourself in a series of adjectives -- out of these 200
words, choose 80 to describe yourself, something like that -- which for many is
more difficult than asking a series of paired questions: are you more this or
this? and repeat. For me, the Socionics questionnaire is more confusing. I can
be most of those adjectives, depending on what setting I'm in.

It frequently reverses the fourth letter of each type code for introverts. For
example, INFPs apparently have a reasonably good chance of getting an INFj on a
Socionics test. I, as an INFP, am said to exhibit primary Fi (introverted
feeling) and secondary Ne (extraverted intuition). But because Fi might be more
dominant and therefore easier for an outsider to see, Socionics calls it Fe and
Ni instead. Which completely reverses the traditionally held definitions of what
is meant by each of the eight cognitive functions (Fe, Fi, Ne, Ni, Se, Si, Te,
Ti) according to www.cognitivefunctions.com. Each cognitive function can have a
very different feel from the one that shares its capital letter. MBTI theory
seems to work because, deep down, everyone prefers either Se or Si, Te or Ti . .
. one is always a more left- or right-brained function than the other. Si is
about comparing everything to past experience, but Se is about living in the
moment. Very different.

Also, socionics type descriptions are fond of making physical descriptions out
of personality types, and I don't see that there's any correlation between how
long our faces are, how perky our eyes are, what sort of a walking gait we have
. . .

There. Inaccessible pseudo-abstractionist rant over. =)

socialphobiagroup <socialphobiagroup@...> wrote:
Hi,

Some people might find this site interesting:

http://socionics.com/main/types.htm

Cheers,

Rama








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