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    Default Typology from scratch.

    Suppose you did not have any knowledge of socionics, but you did have the vague intuitive idea that people differ in terms of personality in fundamental ways to the point where dividing them into sepparate groups is meaningful. How would you then go about discovering exactly how many groups there are, what the commonalities of the people in the groups are, and how they should be named?

    Another way to formulate the question: if socionics turns out to be bull-shit, but we stick to the idea that people can be meaningfully classified; how could a theory of personality be formulated and tested in a way that precludes us from making the mistakes that were made during the previous attempts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by labcoat
    Another way to formulate the question: if socionics turns out to be bull-shit, but we stick to the idea that people can be meaningfully classified; how could a theory of personality be formulated and tested in a way that precludes us from making the mistakes that were made during the previous attempts?

    establish observable patterns, possibly through brain scans.

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    What mistakes are you talking about?
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    Default Re: Typology from scratch.

    Quote Originally Posted by labcoat
    Another way to formulate the question: if socionics turns out to be bull-shit, but we stick to the idea that people can be meaningfully classified; how could a theory of personality be formulated and tested in a way that precludes us from making the mistakes that were made during the previous attempts?
    Have you checked the history of how the Big Five Theory was developed? I haven't investigated it much, but I think there were several different theories around until psychologists finally agreed that probably all of people's differences in personality can be described in terms of those five dimensions (four of which are very similar if not identical to the four scales in Socionics, MBTT, and Keirsey's model).

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    You will eventuelly end up with a sort of Big Five personality category. As most of the people who tried did.

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    Relationships.

    It's the only thing that gives socionics meaning at all. Might as well use favorite colors otherwise. Of course, any classification has to be evaluated within the criteria that were responsible for it, but I can't think of anything else that would be a suitable means of cross-reference, if we're limited to psychology.

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    Just one thing, b is indentical to a, just notation used to compile the matrix, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by thehotelambush
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    It's the only thing that gives socionics meaning at all. Might as well use favorite colors otherwise. Of course, any classification has to be evaluated within the criteria that were responsible for it, but I can't think of anything else that would be a suitable means of cross-reference, if we're limited to psychology.
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