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    Default Reinin dichotomies --- How they can help to avoid mistypings

    Why is it so unreliable to type a person with the Jungian dichotomies alone? Because it can be very hard to find out a person't preferences. That's the reason why MBTI typings are worth nothing.

    Using Reinin dichotomies, we can easily see why dichotomous typing it is so difficult. Some examples:

    People who tell a lot of stories are not necessarily extraverts. They might be introverted*declaring instead...
    People who seem to have an analytical mind are not necessarily logical. They might be ethical*static instead...
    People who seem to be unemotional are not necessarily logical. They might be ethical*serious instead...

    More examples:
    Focus on wellbeing of own group: Ethical XOR Logical*Aristocratic
    Think about the future: Rational XOR Irrational*Farsighted
    Focus on goals: Rational XOR Irrational*Strategic
    and so on, and so forth...

    This might also be a good explanation for strange typings in MBTI: Those MBTI practicioners seem to believe that people who focus on goals are always Judging, they don't consider Perceiving*Strategic for them.

    Dichotomus typing is not a bad method - but you have to use all the 15 dichotomies then...
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    Information gain due to being more specific.

    Add, dunno, 4 extra dichotomies for subtypes (thus making it altogether 255 reinin dichotomies), find out what their empirical content is, and you'll be on your way towards superior typing skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevor View Post
    Add, dunno, 4 extra dichotomies for subtypes (thus making it altogether 255 reinin dichotomies)
    Why 255?

    We don't need extra dichotomies for subtypes. My subtype is INFp and works with the same 15 dichotomies as the base type. In my opinion it makes sense to use Reinin dichotomies even for subtyping, see http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...chotomies.html.

    Complete subtype theory (or dual-type theory as tcaudillg calls it) works with 256 types. Each of them has 15 traits, 7 stronger and 8 weaker ones. If base type and subtype are identical, all the 15 traits are equally strong. In my case:

    very introverted (because both INTj and INFp are introverted)
    very intuitive
    very farsighted
    very emotivist
    very merry
    very result
    very asking

    quite logical (because INTj is logical, INFp ethical)
    quite judging
    quite obstinate
    quite static
    quite democratic
    quite strategic
    quite negativist
    quite judicious
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDo View Post
    Why 255?
    What's IM-Aristocrat XOR EM-Merry?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brilliand View Post
    What's IM-Aristocrat XOR EM-Merry?
    Doesn't make much sense to me. If a person is IM-Aristocratic, the interesting question is if (s)he's EM-Aristocratic, too.

    XOR logic makes sense to derive 1 Reinin dichotomy from 2 others because, for example, both logical*judging and ethical*perceiving types have contact ethics which makes them emotivist.
    But what does it mean if a person is IM-Aristocrat XOR EM-Merry?

    This approach would not lead to 256-1 = 255 traits. It would lead to 15*15 = 225 traits...

    EDIT: wait... 15*15 + 15(IM) + 15(EM) = 255, indeed... I have to think about it again...

    Quote Originally Posted by Grigory Reinin
    The full description of n types is possible by means of n-1 criteria. Both theory and practice prove that. The most effective personal questionnaires used all over the world such as Kettel's or Smishek's questionnaires have 15-16 scales.
    I don't know the theory which proves that. But it is possible to divide n types into n-1 symmetrical halves. In the case of the Reinin dichotomies "symmetrical" means that 8 Farsighted types are introverts and 8 are extraverts, 8 of them are logical and 8 are ethical and so on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDo View Post
    I don't know the theory which proves that. But it is possible to divide n types into n-1 symmetrical halves. In the case of the Reinin dichotomies "symmetrical" means that 8 Farsighted types are introverts and 8 are extraverts, 8 of them are logical and 8 are ethical and so on.
    Let's think of the types in terms of base dichotomies - that is, dichotomies that can't be derived from each other. Core Socionics uses 4 base dichotomies, rendering 2^4=16 types. In general, the number of types will always be 2^n, because each dichotomy doubles the number of types. Now, the number of dochotomies that can be derived from this set will also be 2^n, but that's counting the null/non-null dichotomy... so the useful dichotomies will be 2^n-1.

    It would probably be pretty hard to draw useful conclusions from only two dichotomies with 8 base dichotomies, as that's still 64 types in the category. To get an interesting pairing, let's try looking at it the other way around. What combination of dichotomies would indicate that the type has a contact feeling IM element paired with Ne EM?

    Dichotomies determining position of feeling:
    Feeling, Judging

    Dichotomies determining position of Ne:
    Extravert, Sensing, Judging

    Dichotomies indicating what I described
    IM Judging X EM Judging
    IM Feeling X EM Sensing
    IM Feeling X IM Judging = IM Emotivist

    IM T/F XOR EM S/N and vise-versa are pretty good candidates for interesting IM-EM cross dichotomies.



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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDo View Post
    People who seem to be unemotional are not necessarily logical. They might be ethical*serious instead...
    This has helped me a lot the past couple days in finally typing my Dad as ISFj. It explains why he can come across as so cold and severe, judge people so quickly, etc. Everything matches. I hadn't even considered him an F type though, but after considering that he may be ethical*serious, everything fits perfectly. Also explains why we don't get along so much, but that's a different story!

    Do keep continuing with these dichotomies, I find them very interesting to read and learn about. Good food for thought.

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