Originally Posted by
Ryu
You're essentially right.
It's putting a general faith in their longer term understanding of things, whatever it may be, and not knowing how to or poorly interpreting what is actually going on at the moment. The long term understanding can get in the way of, or distort, the interpretation of what's happening. I'm not really saying anything profound.
For example, if an EII has a particularly negative point of view of somebody (and the person is actually being a good person now), then they may actually distort actions to reflect that, which are happening at the present. They may automatically assume, because of past experiences, that the motivations and intentions of someone are the same as in the past. And in doing so, they may condemn someone preemptively, by relying on their long term understanding/vision of the person, they trust their own intuition over what's happening. I say "long term" which smacks of time/temporal things, but it's related to being static - and expecting things to be static, expecting constancy.
This isn't 'good' or 'bad', just something I've noticed. It's what they are strong in - ethics and intuition- so it's what they trust. It makes sense, in terms of socionics.
On the other hand, if an EII has a particularly positive point of view, and the person is actually doing bad things, the EII can have a solid 'grace period' where, because they trust their intuition and vision of the person, they keep assuming the best even though what's happening in reality doesn't match up with that. But again, as with everything, I think the more aware, and the more healthy, and the more mature the EII, the less this problem develops. Nevertheless, each type has certain weaknesses or typical things they don't deal very well with. The dual pair makes sense in tihs way - an ST would be able to balance out the NF well. Particularly in this case, a dynamic ST to balance the static NF.
It takes a while for EIIs to change their long term visions, or in some cases to even develop them. Various EIIs deal with this in different ways. Some are very reclusive and wait for a lot of data before making a grand vision about someone's ethics; some are very hopeful of people in general; some are more cynical; etc. And sometimes, EIIs personal feelings affect things, even if they don't admit it. Liking someone, being attracted to them, or conversely, disagreeing with someone or disliking certain things about them also impact this long term intuitive visions of somebody.
The meter stick analogy has to do with, imo, somewhat faulty interpretations of immediate, present moment, individual events. The reliance on intuition and long term (static) views can produce a clumsy analysis. I've seen this in various formats, in terms of EIIs getting hurt, or EIIs unintentionally leading other people on, or EIIs damaging relationships when there was actually not a threat, or even EIIs having hopes that are entirely unreasonable for someone, one way or the other. I'm not saying that EIIs are "wrong", or this is bad, I'm simply discussing a tendency that I've seen in EIIs - and highlighting the negative aspects of the tendency. I've not gone into the positive aspects very much.
It's understandable that EIIs may develop a cautious nature.