View Poll Results: Betas, what type are you?

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  • LSI (ISTj)

    14 16.28%
  • EIE (ENFj)

    19 22.09%
  • IEI (INFp)

    44 51.16%
  • SLE (ESTp)

    9 10.47%
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    Sociotype IEI-Ni (FiFeNeTiTeSiSe)
    Enneatype 6W5 Sx/Sc
    Gender Male
    Age 24
    Location
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    Ethnicity Cherokee German Mexican
    Height & weight 5'7" 185lbs
    Eye color & hair color Light brown
    Hobbies & interests Abstractions Vulgarity & Mostly cats
    Why you are here Because i can finally understand whats being said in here.
    Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.

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    Sociotype: IEI - Ni
    Enneatype: 4w3 sx/sp
    Aliases: Kade
    Gender: Fem/NonBinary
    Age: 21
    Location: BC, Canada
    Occupation: Student
    Ethnicity: The whitesttt
    Height & weight: 5'6', 130lbs
    Eye color & hair color: Green, dark dark brown (but a bit blue right now) : )
    Hobbies & interests: Music, piano, songwriting, typology, snowboarding, dancing, procrastinating, skipping class.
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: ? haha
    Relationship status: open
    Why you are here: for fun?? : /

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    Username: kadda1212
    Sociotype: Fe-IEI
    Enneatype: 4w5 so/sx
    Aliases: Kadda, Katharina, Katha, Kathi, Kathinus, Kathinüsschen, Katharienchen Honigbienchen
    Gender: Female
    Age: 23
    Location: Hessen, Germany
    Occupation: Student
    Ethnicity: German, Caucasian, whatever.
    Height & weight: 173 cm and my weight is secret.
    Eye color & hair color: Blue and Red-Brown
    Hobbies & interests: Music, playing guitar, writing, drawing, gaming
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: Christianity
    Relationship status: single
    Why you are here: because I enjoy forums and typology.
    Love is like an energy, rushing in, rushing inside of me...

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    Username Aeroscorp.
    Sociotype SLE-Se.
    Enneatype 7w8.
    Aliases Aero.
    Gender Male.
    Age 28.
    Location Nashville
    Occupation Radio Producer.
    Ethnicity White.
    Height & weight 5'9" 150.
    Eye color & hair color Blue eyes and brown hair
    Hobbies & interests Trying to stay on God's good side, football (Go Irish!), pro wrestling, and the occasional video game.
    Religious & spiritual beliefs Christianity.
    Relationship status Single
    Why you are here I'm new to this and want to meet IEIs.

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    Welcome Aeroscorp. There are lots of IEIs here.
    You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek.
    But first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril.
    You shall see things, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... cow... on the roof of a cotton house. And, oh, so many startlements.
    I cannot tell you how long this road shall be, but fear not the ob-stacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward.
    Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation
    .


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    I've noticed! I've met more here in the last few days than probably ever IRL.

    It makes me suspicious...

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    Username: gabrielle
    Sociotype: EIE (most likely Fe subtype from what I've read so far)
    Enneatype: 7w8 sp/so
    Aliases: N/A
    Gender: Female
    Age: 52
    Location: Ottawa, Canada
    Occupation: I worked in media as a designer, changed careers to hairstyling, and now I'm retired from both of those to work with community charities primarily dealing with personal enrichment.
    Ethnicity: Caucasian - German/Hungarian
    Height & weight: 5' 7" 130 lb.
    Eye color & hair color: Green, Dark Blonde
    Hobbies & interests: Basic wellness incorporating physical fitness as well as I'm a bit of a Foodie but from the healthy perspective. I like creative arts, obviously from my background. I love to go on road trips and I'm a history, architecture and photography buff. I also like going to the theater, art shows, musical venues, reading about sociological and cultural topics.
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: I consider myself a born again Christian, but take that very privately. I'm a parishioner at an Anglican church.
    Relationship status: I am married to an LSI, my dual
    Why you are here: Got interested in Socionics after filling up on MBTI and Enneagram!
    "Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems."
    Charles Colson, How Now Shall We Live?



    Fe - EIE Harmonizing 3w2
    Married to my dual LSI
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    Username Lilith
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    IEI-Fe
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    3w4 458 sx/so
    Aliases
    Kat
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    33
    Location
    your dreams or nightmares... it depends
    Occupation
    pain in the ass
    Height & weight
    5'2", dunno o.o
    Eye color & hair color
    Blue eyes, black hair
    Hobbies & interests
    Psychology, Socionics, Enneagram, Music, Movies
    Religious & spiritual beliefs

    Relationship status
    Single
    Why you are here
    I'm not sure yet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeroscorp View Post
    I've noticed! I've met more here in the last few days than probably ever IRL.

    It makes me suspicious...
    It's probably because we're all relationship and psychology obsessed and socionics is great for that.

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    Last edited by Olly From Wally World; 06-21-2015 at 03:24 PM.

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    Username Fragment/Unary
    Sociotype IEI-Ni
    Enneatype 5w6 sp/so
    Aliases: I never had one, really.
    Gender Male
    Age 28
    Location Nope
    Occupation Slacker/Computer Science Grad Student and TA
    Ethnicity Black
    Height & weight 5'4" 140
    Eye color & hair color Brown/Black
    Hobbies & interests Psychology, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Programming, Music, Writing
    Religious & spiritual beliefs Agnostic-Theist
    Relationship status LOL. Been single for years. Not sure when it will end as I really don't care.
    Why you are here I like theories about random sh!t

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    Username: ScarlettLux (since '05 yo)
    Sociotype: EIE-Ni
    Enneatype: 3w4 sx/so
    Aliases: None!
    Gender: Female
    Age: 24
    Location: Ontario, Canada
    Occupation: Grad student doing a Master's in Occupational Therapy
    Ethnicity: Asian
    Height & weight: 5'3 115lbs
    Hair and eye colour: Dark brown for both
    Hobbies & interests: Psychology, typology, music, film, poetry, cats, relationships
    Religious & spiritual: I feel spirituality through music and nature
    Relationship status: In a relationship
    Why you are here: I have been obsessed with personality typology from a young age.. I need compatibility and lack thereof explained.


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    Username: McBain
    Sociotype: EIE-Ni
    Enneatype: 4w3 sx/sp
    Aliases: N/A
    Gender: Male
    Age: 26
    Location: SF/Bay Area, CA
    Occupation: Student
    Ethnicity: Cracker
    Height & Weight: 6'3"-ish, 210 lbs
    Hair and Eye Color: Brown
    Hobbies & Interests: Who cares?
    Religious & Spiritual Beliefs: N/A
    Relationship status: Single
    Why you are here: No clue
    Last edited by male; 01-02-2015 at 12:01 AM.

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    Username: Myst
    Sociotype: LSI-Se
    Enneatype: 8w7 sx/sp
    Aliases: none
    Gender: Female
    Age: Hey I feel 22 in my soul. I'm not much older than that.
    Location: Insignificant little country in Europe
    Occupation: Many things
    Ethnicity: White
    Height & weight: 5'4 115lbs
    Hair and eye colour: Hair colour changes, brown for eyes
    Hobbies & interests: If you want to know about this shit, ask me.
    Religious & spiritual: Just spiritual a tiny little bit, well well it's a long story. Religion can fuck off
    Relationship status: Single
    Why you are here: For the theory and for fun hey why do I need a reason?

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    8w9 sx/so
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    n4
    Gender F
    Age 21
    Location
    Vancouver, Canada
    Occupation
    Student, Barista, Marketing/Comm VP in student club, sometimes an English tutor... I do different things to pass the time lol
    Ethnicity
    Half British half Hong Kongnese
    Hobbies & interests
    getting ass, reading, cooking, the great outdoors
    Religious & spiritual beliefs
    Half the family is Protestant Christian and the other half is Buddhist. I was illegally raised as both lol. I have a lot of spirituality knowledge under my belt; I dabble and read a lot. I've had some odd spiritual experiences in physical reality which I would describe as downright "biblical"... however, until further notice I am agnostic.
    Relationship status "
    It's complicated"
    Why you are here
    To sharpen my IEI hunting spear

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    how the hell did i not post in this thread before ??

    Username glam
    Sociotype IEI-Fe, Contact sub
    Enneatype 4w3 sp/so
    Aliases Not telling
    Gender Female
    Age 20-something
    Location USA
    Occupation Recent grad looking for work
    Ethnicity White, Hispanic
    Height & weight 5'4" & not telling
    Eye color & hair color Brown eyes & brown hair
    Hobbies & interests Traveling, international politics, long-distance running, reading & writing, typology, cats
    Religious & spiritual beliefs Atheist
    Relationship status In a relationship
    Why you are here Because everyone comes back

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    Username -
    Sociotype IEI
    Enneatype 4w3 sx/sp
    Gender Female
    Age If you round it up it's 19
    Location Europe
    Occupation Student. I want to work with VFX.
    Ethnicity Mostly Scandinavian
    Height & weight 173cm and excuse me?
    Eye color & hair color Brown and ugly mint green atm with some blonde strands that will soon turn to a natural red <3
    Hobbies & interests Music, other people
    Religious & spiritual beliefs It can't really be explained, but there is some spiritual power out there that help people in need whether it be a tiny thing or big thing, and we do have a destiny that was decided a long time ago. that's why we have intuition and why some things feel right and wrong. I don't think it's a belief, it's a truth.
    Relationship status In a relationship
    Why you are here For the community and the people, mostly. Even if I like to shelter myself off. It's complicated.

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    Sociotype: IEI (probably Ni)
    Aliases: Vinny
    Gender: Male
    Age: 20
    Location: Germany (soon Netherlands )
    Occupation: Prospective Psychology Student
    Ethnicity: Caucasian (German)
    Height & weight: 6'4", 198 lbs
    Eye color & hair color: Blue/Grey Eyes | Dark Blond Hair
    Hobbies & interests: Psychology | Fitness | Nutrition | Longevity | Conscious Hip-Hop | Anthropology
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: No need
    Relationship status: Searching for the perfect woman :'(
    Why you are here: I want to read and understand the people and get better than everyone haha
    Last edited by New Chapter; 03-02-2017 at 04:40 PM.

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    Username Nokomis
    Sociotype SLE-Ti
    Enneatype ?
    Aliases n/a
    Gender Male
    Age 20s
    Location Northern USA
    Occupation Government
    Ethnicity White of Czech descent
    Height & weight 6-0 175
    Eye color & hair color Green/Brown
    Hobbies & interests Real Estate/Geography/Architecture
    Religious & spiritual beliefs Catholic
    Relationship status Single
    Why you are here It's addicting.. been lurking for almost ten years
    ​SLE - Ti

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    Username: Look to the left and up a little bit.
    Sociotype: IEI-Ni
    Enneatype: 9w1
    Aliases: Truck, Sambo, King Fag.
    Gender: Man! I feel like a .... man.
    Age: Old.
    Location: Midwest USA
    Occupation: Unemployed loser.
    Ethnicity: White and proud of it.
    Height & weight: 6 foot 2, 230 pounds.
    Eye color & hair color: Bright hazel with rainbow specs. Brown hair.
    Hobbies & interests: Writing, video games, music, love/lust and romance.
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: Shamanism/Agnostic/something I call Entropic Compassion: The wisdom that everyone eventually decays and turns into food for the worms, so why not be a little kinder to each other? Note I said a little. If everybody was always nice and well-behaved I'd be bored to tears.
    Relationship status: Single
    Why you are here: Because I'm a genetic defect that can't make it in the real world. If I found a real world place I fit in much better, I'd spend most of my time there and not in this slow suicide dump. But until then: here I am. Also here because I met some really cool and interesting people that I feel connected with. My weird, dysfunctional and co-dependent internet family. <3

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    Username Excitant
    Sociotype EIE-Fe
    Enneatype 4w5 sx/so
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    Gender Male
    Age Mid 30's
    Location Just a passenger riding on a sinking ship
    Occupation Getting by
    Ethnicity White (Irish and English)
    Height & weight 6' ish and somewhere around 155-165
    Eye color & hair color Ask super nicely and I'll tell you no
    Hobbies & interests Psychology, Personality Types, Thunderstorms,
    Religious & spiritual beliefs Christian, but not the go to Church type. As a Disciple of Christ, I am the Church
    Relationship status In a Serious Relationship with an INFJ Type 9
    Why you are here To learn more about myself and to grow into a more defined version of self awareness
    "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless
    which cannot be touched without emotion. Even the
    utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests,
    there are matters of which no jest can be made."

    - The Masque of the Red Death

    Fi>Fe>Ne>Ni=Se>Si>Ti>Te

    This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, As the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man

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    Username: Raven Song
    Sociotype IEI-Ni
    Enneatype: 4w5 sx/so
    Aliases: None
    Gender: Female
    Age: 29
    Location: Canada
    Occupation: Daydreamer in the guise of a government employee
    Ethnicity: Irish, German, Scottish, Scandinavian, Chinese
    Height & Weight: 5'0 & 119lbs
    Eye color & hair color: Green eyes, Brunette
    Hobbies & interests: Daydreaming, meditation, reading, writing, mysticism
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: Gnosticism, Shamanism, Christianity (quite heretical, really)
    Relationship status: Engaged
    Why you are here: To learn more about Socionics - of course!

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    Username: shotgunfingers
    Sociotype: LSI - Harmonizing (typed by Victor Gulenko)
    Enneatype: 6w5 Sp/Sx
    Aliases: Mr. Lich King
    Gender: Male
    Age: 33
    Location: Transylvania - Romania
    Occupation: System Administrator
    Ethnicity: Caucasian - Hungarian
    Height & weight: 6ft (183 cm) 187 lbs. (85 kg)
    Eye color & hair color: Green/Dark Blonde
    Hobbies & interests: IT, philosophy, politics, psychology, economics, photography
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: Mystical but not religious, always hungry for meaning & direction
    Relationship status: disinterested
    Why you are here: work has become boring and I wanted to figure myself out

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    was this thread started by a fed

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    Username: oath of solitude
    Sociotype: LSI
    Enneatype: 5w4 5-9-4 SP/SX
    Gender: Male
    Age: 30
    Location: Canada
    Occupation:
    Ethnicity: White
    Height & weight: 5'8" (173 cm) 170 lbs. (77 kg)
    Eye color & hair color: Brown, dark blonde
    Hobbies & interests: Computer programming, Typology (socionics + enneagram), reading, exercise
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: dunno lol
    Relationship status: Single
    Why you are here: Socionics is cool, and I want to learn as much about it as possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stance View Post
    You're a LSI 594 who is into computer science? Saweet.
    One of my closest friends is 954... That dude I became friends with off a dating site.
    I am a 359 tritype, myself.
    Yep, that's me
    I've never managed to meet anyone from a dating site, myself. But that's cool, what Sociotype is your friend?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stance View Post
    He ended up being ILI. We turned out to be incompatible romantically ITR-wise, but he's a wonderful conversation partner.

    At least with me, I am a closet nerd so don't be afraid to share your nerdy/computer science interests when you find an EIE. It's fun to learn about other people's passions and interests.
    ok, sounds good. I haven't really met my dual before

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    Username: Disturbed
    Sociotype: LSI
    Enneatype: 6w5 (IV: sx/sp)
    Gender: Self-consciously Male
    Age: 34
    Location: In Central VA, unfortunately not in Newport News
    Occupation: None for pay; volunteer
    Ethnicity: Southern German, Hungarian, maybe middle eastern, some english and french
    Height & weight: 5'9" ~220 lbs.
    Eye color & hair color: blue-green eyes, brown hair
    Hobbies & interests: hematology, genealogy, vid games, music, writing, electronics, getting reactions out of people, creative writing, psychology especially psychometrics, pornography, other cultures--ancient and modern, economics, anthropology
    Religious & spiritual beliefs: Agnostic, anti-theist
    Relationship status: Single and somewhat scared of romantic relationships, desperate for some sexual activities with many sexy ILE-Ti and LSI-Se
    Why you are here: to pass time, intellectual stimulation, to learn.
    Desires in life: Good mental stability, good enjoyment, good job(s), to never get married, to live in Newport News and never reside anywhere else, to create original and beautiful things.
    Last edited by Disturbed; 11-27-2021 at 10:21 PM.
    I'm sorry, but I'm psychologically disturbed.


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    I'm not sharing any of this information, if you don't already know me you will soon.
    The Barnum or Forer effect is the tendency for people to judge that general, universally valid statements about personality are actually specific descriptions of their own personalities. A "universally valid" statement is one that is true of everyone—or, more likely, nearly everyone. It is not known why people tend to make such misjudgments, but the effect has been experimentally reproduced.

    The psychologist Paul Meehl named this fallacy "the P.T. Barnum effect" because Barnum built his circus and dime museum on the principle of having something for everyone. It is also called "the Forer effect" after its discoverer, the psychologist Bertram R. Forer, who modestly dubbed it "the fallacy of personal validation".

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