Re: Typology from scratch.
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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.
Re: Typology from scratch.
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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).