Just ask yourself: am I really a specific type, or am I just desperate for an identity? Also ask yourself what the reason is you are hanging out here: is it to really learn something about yourself and exchange intellectual information, or are you again for desparate for identity, and in addition to that, desparate for a feeling of intellectual/emotional connectedness to other people? Or just desparate for a feeling of being significant and important (since I already know who of you is going to object forcefully instead of giving my post a thought).
Most of you here are quite young, but intelligent. At some stage in your life, you might discover that people like Erasmus, Freud and Sartre, who stated that most people are just actors playing assumed roles, not being their true selves, were actually right. The stronger you believe that you are A SPECIFIC THING (a specific type in any typology, but also any other role you care to assume and identify with, be it bus driver, scientist, father, waiter, American, etc. etc.), the more you are fooling yourself and limiting yourself in your freedom to tap into your creativity and be the only thing you really are: JUST YOU!
And one other thing: did any of you ever see MRI scans pointing out which parts of the brains are responsible for the Socionic cognitive functions? I guess you didn't, simply because they do not exist, as opposed to other cognitive functions that have been proven to exist. The are just abstract models. And don't protest with the results of Russian research, since any of them that I read about violate the principles of double-blind testing.
Hell, most of you don't understand Jung: he meant all this stuff just as abstract model, a tool for explaining pathological traits, and MBTI and Socionics added more significance to it than Jung ever meant. As did many people with his theory of archetypes and focus on development of their personality as an archetype, restricting their personalities and increasing their pathological behavior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_a...in_of_negation