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    Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
    What's really required is an alternative theory to compare it to, not any more tests. It doesn't matter how rigorous and scientific the test is, if there's no alternative theory where we could choose which theory performs and survives the test better.
    You don't need an alternative theory to be able to check whether the hypothesis based on the theory is true or false.


    Even if the tests proves Socionics wrong in some ways, I doubt that most people would start abandoning Socionics en masse. That's because they could either blame the test as being flawed, or say that the basic premise of Socionics is correct, but it needs more research.

    The fact is that there already are some alternatives theories in scientific psychology, which most people are either aren't aware of, or they deliberately ignore them. Or they would incorporate those theories into Socionics and start making ad-hoc modifications, and see no conflict or contradictions between them.
    There are no psychological theories that deal in depth with the compatibility of how different people interact with each other. There are observations in Western psychology on there being patterns but I have not seen anyone investigate it in depth like Socionists have.


    The reason why it's so easy to make ad-hoc modifications in Socionics, is because it has no systematic and theoretical skeletal framework. It has no mechanistic explanations as such. The more rigorous and scientific the theory is, the harder it is to make arbitrary ad-hoc modifications without ruining the entire thing. That's because each of the explanations have their own functions and have internal consistency with the other explanations, just as each of the components in a mechanical clock have their own use, and if you change 1 thing then it ruins the entire thing.
    That's exactly what I was telling you about science.

    BTW Socionics's model does have a systematic framework that can be operationalised and be testable even in its current form for the ITR. The problem is the model as it is now is only capable to deal with a few things in a truly systematic way while it just claims to do so for the rest and it's too easy for people to go beyond that into the apophenic thinking - that's bad.


    If it's so easy to modify a theory, then it's a bad theory, i.e. a bad explanation. A good theory or an explanation is hard-to-vary. You can't make arbitrary changes to how reality actually is.
    I can't believe I'm actually hearing the last sentence from you of all people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
    And all I can say is lol.

    MBTI or Jung isn't taken seriously by academic psychologists. Unless you're Jordan Peterson. But then he's just a clinical psychologist, and they tend to take whatever that helps with "therapy".

    Of course psychology touches upon Jung and Freud, since they were a part of history of psychology. But they only mention about how much they don't work, and how they've been plenty of alternative theories since then.
    I'm not a clinical psychologist, but I am a psychologist as I have a masters in cognitive psychology with a cognitive neuropsychology leaning.

    I don't take Socionics, MBTI, or Jung "as is" seriously. What I take seriously is certain ideas from these that have not been investigated in depth by the science of psychology. Certain bases for these ideas have already been corroborated by neurocognitive research. But the real ideas themselves about how people differ in certain things and how these differences affect people in interactions have not been checked out.

    As for the thread OP, I have thought of specific ways to test these things by utilising brain imaging tools. It would be interesting for sure.


    Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
    LOL inconvenient criticisms are "unhelpful annoying questions". It's only repetitive because you're unwilling to accept that Socionics has any flaws. Too bad though, since neither you nor ajsindri knows what a theory even means.

    Apparently in Socionics, types and ITR are the variables in which it stays consistent over time and over different situations. And yet how many "NTR factors" and other ad-hoc modifications do we have to come up with, so that the assumptions made by the theory stay intact and are not refuted?

    If people act differently over time and/or in different situations, then we'll need to analyze why they do act differently. The Socionics framework obviously doesn't provide the necessary tools and the theoretical frameworks in which to analyze such situations from.

    It's so full of holes that why would any psychologist or scientist take this stuff seriously?
    The entire model as it's put is full of holes yeah. No, Socionics doesn't provide all the necessary tools for such analysis, however it does provide a tool that other frameworks have not yet. I do strongly encourage Socionics users to first always try and explain things about people and interactions by general psychology, but general psychology won't explain all of it either, those ideas in Socionics that seem valid do definitely add more.


    Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
    Well we're conflicting now, does that mean that we're Conflictors? Obviously, not. Socionics can't even find out the reason for even the most obvious of human behaviors.

    The question of "Do humans really exist, or not?" does not at all answer the question of "Why do humans conflict?". Nor does pointing out the fact that the conflict is objectively happening, answers the question of why that conflict is occurring.

    All we can say is that Socionics is totally inadequate in explaining the reasons, motivations and causes behind people's behaviors, and the question of whether types really "exist" or not is completely irrelevant in finding out the causes for such matters.
    It is not completely irrelevant. This is what I am convinced about and observations in Western psychology have corroborated this already. Beyond my own experience, of course.

    You may try to deny my own experiences and what I'm going to say is not objectively shareable scientific proof, but I will mention this anyhow: studying Socionics (and even Jung) most definitely increased my own metacognitive abilities in aspects that studying general cognitive psychology has not. And trust me I studied it a lot lol. Those studies have also contributed a lot in other aspects yes, but not for the aspects that Socionics (and Jung) has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thehotelambush View Post
    I'm definitely not against it.

    There are two main ways socionics can be quantified in the empirical sense:

    1) Through neurological observations that correspond to type and information metabolism. This seems completely out of reach at the moment.
    It's not at all out of reach, I have had specific thoughts on how to design EEG experiments properly for the aspects I find valid, etc.


    ]2) Through clinical study and statistical analysis: Likert-style or multiple-choice questionnaires, behavioral task analysis, surveys of relationship quality, etc. While it is more accessible, and it could be used to get "cred" in psychology circles, this seems like a lot of work for very little payoff (given that #1 hasn't been done yet and we don't have a 100% guaranteed way to type): at best it will tell me what I already know with less certainty than I already have, which is that Model A is valid. Given that the typings are valid it could tell us something interesting about relationships, I guess. The Soviets claim to have done studies like this but there is good reason to be skeptical of their claims, as mentioned above (the most obvious of which is that their interpretations of socionics are a bit wacky in the first place).

    My point is just that socionics also deserves to be seen as a rational, metaphysical theory, and this aspect deserves to be fleshed out just as much as the empirical one.
    With less certainty (as per the bolded)? How is that possible? What gives you the extra certainty? I'd like to hear your thoughts specifically, let's check if whatever you have in mind is explainable by general psychology better.

    I have extra certainty about model A being invalid as it is put now. Only certain aspects are valid and they must be put in new models.


    Quote Originally Posted by thehotelambush View Post
    You could show that someone is good at Fe and Ti, or Se and Ni, etc.

    You could show that someone's abilities or values changed from one type to another over time (doesn't necessarily disprove socionics but the hypothesis that types remain the same)

    You could show that someone has positive reactions to conflicting elements such as Te and Ti, Fe and Fi, etc. (This one seems pretty self-evident though since they are opposite priorities.)

    In practice the model is still being refined and we deal with minor flaws (such as, misunderstandings of particular functions or dichotomies) by refining it. I haven't noticed any fatal contradictions as yet.
    I've noticed a few fatal contradictions. Actually, taking your examples here, I've had positive reactions to various things that all can be attributed to the 8 IEs. Even if you say that over time certain IEs remain more favourable on average than others, you will have to explain why they are not always more favourable. At that point you must create a very different model than what we have now. The model A (or Gulenko's additional models etc) is really too lightweight and fails miserably if you try to (over)apply it as much as most people dealing with Socionics tend to.


    Quote Originally Posted by Singu
    If you were to empirically "test" a theory, then first you must state the cause of something which would be predicted to create a certain behavior. But you cannot say that "Fe is the cause and will cause such and such behavior", because the description of the "Fe" is the very description of the behavior that it supposedly caused, and therefore it creates interpretive circularity.
    Yes it's better if we have the tools to investigate more than just behaviour (for example brain imaging is better than nothing), but I don't really see where you got the idea that "Fe" = description of the behaviour it supposedly caused.

    Even though yeah, you can't just label a whole complex system of information processing with just one IE label out of 8 IEs like Socionics does it, I don't think it does what you claimed here. Socionics's model does attempt to say "Fe is X thing and this is the cause of Y thing because Z", and it's not simply "Fe = X thing", or "Fe = X thing and then Y thing happens too so it must be due to Fe".

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    @Myst, as a psychologist, what evidence would socionics have to present for you to take it seriously?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajsindri View Post
    @Myst, as a psychologist, what evidence would socionics have to present for you to take it seriously?
    She’s not just another psychologist. She’s also cognitive psych leaning. That’s scientific concrete thinking realm.

    These opinions don’t always come easily and for free like they do from Gulenko caliber people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
    It's not at all out of reach, I have had specific thoughts on how to design EEG experiments properly for the aspects I find valid, etc.
    That's good that there are experiments you can do. Whether they'll come up with anything is another story.

    With less certainty (as per the bolded)? How is that possible? What gives you the extra certainty? I'd like to hear your thoughts specifically, let's check if whatever you have in mind is explainable by general psychology better.
    It's just my experience of how socionics works in real life. Neurological observations establishing e.g. that Model A exists as a structure in the brain or wherever would only be the first step, it would have to "catch up" to the existing theory with all its insight. More confirmation is of course welcome.

    I've noticed a few fatal contradictions. Actually, taking your examples here, I've had positive reactions to various things that all can be attributed to the 8 IEs. Even if you say that over time certain IEs remain more favourable on average than others, you will have to explain why they are not always more favourable. At that point you must create a very different model than what we have now. The model A (or Gulenko's additional models etc) is really too lightweight and fails miserably if you try to (over)apply it as much as most people dealing with Socionics tend to.
    I don't see this as a contradiction - as you say, it's about the overall long-term response. Every theory is incomplete and leaves some questions unanswered by necessity.

    That said, this is one of the questions I have been investigating - Model A is static as it stands, it doesn't address the dynamics of the mind / information processing.

    Also, to be more precise, we primarily have a negative reactions to the lack of valued (or prioritized) elements rather than a presence of unvalued elements. (My interpretation, not the classical one.)

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    @Myst btw, I'd be interested to hear about those experiments, and what you mentioned in the other thread -

    Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
    OK so we are on the same page now. Uh about my perspective, I'm in general just interested in how to add those valid bits from Socionics to what science already got about how the brain and the mind works. There are a few more recent research results (neurocognitive) where I very strongly recognised things that I've seen from Socionics too. It's however definitely not like Model A anymore.

    I could start another thread for more specifics, but I'd like to do a write up on the whole thing anyway and post that when ready.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
    You don't need an alternative theory to be able to check whether the hypothesis based on the theory is true or false.
    Well you do actually, because you can just keep blaming the experiment or the instrument. Or the marginal errors in the data is going to be seen as some interesting but mysterious anomaly that can't be explained from the current theory, and hence it will likely be ignored. And even if it were proven to be wrong, where else would you go? You only have this theory to turn to anyway. So it's necessary to come up with an alternative.

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    There are no psychological theories that deal in depth with the compatibility of how different people interact with each other. There are observations in Western psychology on there being patterns but I have not seen anyone investigate it in depth like Socionists have.
    Socionics deals with how different people interact with each other - but it's missing the context as to why people act in that way. It might be due to their "innate in-born personality traits", or it might be due to some other contextual factors that we're missing or we don't know of. Since Socionics is a correlational approach and not a causational approach, there's no way to tell whether how people interact with each other have to do with their innate personality traits, or something else entirely.

    I would suspect that the reason why people get along and not get along have mostly to do with their cognitive and social reasons, and it's not as if people are "born" to get along or not get along, as if like some astrology.

    E.g. two people were getting along relative well, until they found out that each other belonged to their politically opposite camps, such as liberal/conservative. Why?

    Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
    BTW Socionics's model does have a systematic framework that can be operationalised and be testable even in its current form for the ITR. The problem is the model as it is now is only capable to deal with a few things in a truly systematic way while it just claims to do so for the rest and it's too easy for people to go beyond that into the apophenic thinking - that's bad.
    See above. By "testable", ITR is just a statistical, correlational approach. All it's saying is that "X has happened before, therefore X will happen again". But there's simply no guarantee why that pattern should repeat without a rational reason as to why. A relationship may continue to conflict, or they may choose to make up and no longer conflict.

    Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
    I'm not a clinical psychologist, but I am a psychologist as I have a masters in cognitive psychology with a cognitive neuropsychology leaning.

    I don't take Socionics, MBTI, or Jung "as is" seriously. What I take seriously is certain ideas from these that have not been investigated in depth by the science of psychology. Certain bases for these ideas have already been corroborated by neurocognitive research. But the real ideas themselves about how people differ in certain things and how these differences affect people in interactions have not been checked out.

    As for the thread OP, I have thought of specific ways to test these things by utilising brain imaging tools. It would be interesting for sure.
    Again, see above. So far, Socionics only deals with observational facts. Those observations may be interesting, sure, but they're still observations to be further studied and investigated, and to be explained from a theory of some kind, which we don't yet have. There's not yet a psychological theory that can explain all these observational facts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sbbds View Post
    Ok. Finally I'm going to start working on this this weekend.

    Always make use of the placebo effect. Blind faith and confidence that you'll succeed increases your odds beyond what's assumed to be reasonable. It's not just a new age motivational meme, it"s an actual thing that's ingrained in the scientific process. Scientists go to great lengths to get away from it because it messes up the numbers. Today we use it in an ironic way. Fuck the odds, don't let them fuck you.

    Even if we fail it will be educational and fun. Anybody welcome to join me, if only to help me make fun of Singu.
    Wtf are u talking about

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    Quote Originally Posted by Number 9 large View Post
    Wtf are u talking about
    It's chaos magick. Sort of.

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    Lmao lost time and interest for this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas View Post
    lol you made this up
    Feel free to carry the torch, Andreas

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