Originally Posted by
mirrorsoul
Well, that might have worked for me if I hadn't studied MBTI first... but now, I'm not going to be able to wipe the slate clean or do anything besides mentally convert MBTI types into Socionic types. As long as I have little or no new information to modify my understanding, I will be influenced by all the information in my head on MBTI
Thanks, everyone... but I think I'm going to give this up. Socionics is just too process-oriented for me. After several weeks of research, I've come back to my original conclusion... Socionics is unusable in its current condition, and it would be irrational to try and use it, relying so heavily on one's own assumptions and filling in the blanks with unreliable data.
I'm really just not built that way... I'm not the sort of person who just develops their own guidelines from nothing or improves them as they go along, and I'm not the sort of person who can be certain of their own interpretation in the face of criticism.
I would be changing my interpretation of Socionics every time someone corrected me otherwise, and if there are two camps people who disagree... I won't know what to believe. That's what I do in the absence of clear guidelines... I just try to mimic everyone else. For what is supposed to be an intellectual pursuit, that sounds more than a little unsatisfactory.
No thanks.