usefulness of typing characters
How is typing fictional characters useful to one's understanding of socionics? It may be possible for a writer to create a character of approximate type xxxx, but to get an actor to accurately portray that type seems highly unlikely. I don't understand what you would gain from typing an entire cast of characters of a tv show, for example.
Re: usefulness of typing characters
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Originally Posted by reyn_til_runa
I don't understand what you would gain from typing an entire cast of characters of a tv show, for example.
If a group were to type a cast from a TV show they would all be observing and analyzing the same data. Their anaylsis might be wrong, but at least everyone has access to exactly the same information. Information concerning real people is wish-washy and has many biases if it comes from a biography or autobiography. But I think the problem is bigger. We have lots of Socionic information but no exacting crtieria for each type. We have a few ideas and rules we mostly think are true concerning a type, but there are far too many exceptions for the system to be correct and practically applicable. So, typing people is useless until we have a criteria for each type with rules that cannot be broken and have high correlation. Of course, this is impossible, there are far too many circumstances and human beings living out those circumstances for there not be exceptions.