
Originally Posted by
Jadae16t
In terms of all of these theory sets -- they are just that. Big 5 comes closest to reality, how the brain actually works, and enneagram is about in the middle, with Socionics and MBTI pretty far behind. And some recent studies flat out contradict some of these theories. For example, strongest average scores of empathy were found in moderate extraverts, with a huge drop off in extreme introverts and extreme extroverts. Ideas like this put Big 5 in the running for least contradictory to the actual brain. Studies of introversion and extroversion correlate fairly well with the ideas of MBTI, Enneagram, and Big 5, but not Socionics, because Socionics is systematic and very black/white (it lacks spectrum).