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    When I say 16 types, I don't mean the forum, but the root idea of 16 personality types of four letters, which would include socionics, MBTI and Jung's functions. A few days ago I overheard some teenagers talking about it in the bus like it was common knowledge and it caught me off guard because I felt that it was an esoteric-like knowledge to be aware of the 16 personality types. Anyone else noticing this trend?
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    Yeah I guess if I wanted to get an INFJ shirt it would have to say "the Counselor" on it. Yuck. And my MBTI friends would make fun of me and tell me I'm not an INFJ, and other MBTI INFJs would want to get to know me and have discussions about our type, and wouldn't be the same system, blah. Too much trouble.


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    Aren't personality typologies based on four letters and 16 personality types limited to like, socionics MBTI and Keirsey?

    I know that people know about MBTI, but I haven't observed it "growing" or anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galen View Post
    Aren't personality typologies based on four letters and 16 personality types limited to like, socionics MBTI and Keirsey?

    I know that people know about MBTI, but I haven't observed it "growing" or anything.
    That was a typo, I just fixed it . I haven't observed it generally growing either, just hearing it in a common place like a bus made me think it is gaining momentum. I think it's being introduced to the education system as a viable personality system and students are being tested to see which career would fit them best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cat King Cole View Post
    This upsets me.
    Me too. Mainly because if it's true, that's a billion more idiots using a shitty four-dichotomy system.
    What do these signs mean—, , etc.? Why cannot socionists use symbols Ne, Ni etc. as in MBTI? Just because they have somewhat different meaning. Socionics and MBTI, each in its own way, have slightly modified the original Jung's description of his 8 psychological types. For this reason, (Ne) is not exactly the same as Ne in MBTI.

    Just one example: in MBTI, Se (extraverted sensing) is associated with life pleasures, excitement etc. By contrast, the socionic function (extraverted sensing) is first and foremost associated with control and expansion of personal space (which sometimes can manifest in excessive aagression, but often also manifests in a capability of managing lots of people and things).

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    At least the Big 5 is scientific and actually testable. I suppose it loses out in popularity because it uses ordinary-language labels like "emotionally stable" or "easily upset", whereas MBTI appeals to systemising and sorting instincts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    I think it's being introduced to the education system as a viable personality system and students are being tested to see which career would fit them best.
    What an astonishingly, frightfully bad idea.
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    I think it's being introduced to the education system as a viable personality system and students are being tested to see which career would fit them best.
    What an astonishingly, frightfully bad idea.
    Haha yeah, I remember one teen saying he was ENTJ and that he would be best working in management. The fact that he looked like a skater punk made me chuckle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    ... just hearing it in a common place like a bus made me think it is gaining momentum.
    Some teachers give MBTI tests to their students and any decent campus is going to have a career service center of some kind that will have MBTI and alike tests available for students. MBTI w/ its 16 types has been around for a long while and got lots of material published on subject matter, so it's really not any new kind of momentum (*takes a Ni extinguisher and sprays Traveler's Ne with it* )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
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    Aren't personality typologies based on four letters and 16 personality types limited to like, socionics MBTI and Keirsey?

    I know that people know about MBTI, but I haven't observed it "growing" or anything.
    That was a typo, I just fixed it . I haven't observed it generally growing either, just hearing it in a common place like a bus made me think it is gaining momentum. I think it's being introduced to the education system as a viable personality system and students are being tested to see which career would fit them best.
    Actually the way i got introduced to MBTI was i had to take a formal MBTI test before i showed up for med school orientation. Didn't seem like they really used it for any career guidance or anything. If they did it was only very peripheral, to my knowledge. I personally think every type is capable of most careers; each type brings a unique strength and perspective to the table.

    I'm not sure how useful MBTI typing is for career guidance, but I do think that socionic intertypes could be very useful in assigning people to functional teams that work well together, teach one another a great deal, and bond well. It would be a rewarding and productive experience for everyone.
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    I would say its becoming more popular but it isn't really catching on. More people know about it now but typology as a hobby isnt becoming more popular. The only reason its becoming more well known is due to using the MBTI as a career test in schools and some companies making workers take it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    When I say 16 types, I don't mean the forum
    Then shouldn't that be, "Are 16 types...?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    Then shouldn't that be, "Are 16 types...?"
    Which 16 did you have in mind?

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    Then shouldn't that be, "Are 16 types...?"
    Which 16 did you have in mind?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    When I say 16 types, I don't mean the forum, but the root idea of 16 personality types of four letters, which would include socionics, MBTI and Jung's functions. A few days ago I overheard some teenagers talking about it in the bus like it was common knowledge and it caught me off guard because I felt that it was an esoteric-like knowledge to be aware of the 16 personality types. Anyone else noticing this trend?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Typhon View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    When I say 16 types, I don't mean the forum, but the root idea of 16 personality types of four letters, which would include socionics, MBTI and Jung's functions. A few days ago I overheard some teenagers talking about it in the bus like it was common knowledge and it caught me off guard because I felt that it was an esoteric-like knowledge to be aware of the 16 personality types. Anyone else noticing this trend?
    I think you have your thoughts confused.
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    When I say 16 types, I don't mean the forum
    Then shouldn't that be, "Are 16 types...?"
    Yes, it won't let me change it though.

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    I'm not sure how useful MBTI typing is for career guidance, but I do think that socionic intertypes could be very useful in assigning people to functional teams that work well together, teach one another a great deal, and bond well. It would be a rewarding and productive experience for everyone.
    That sounds like a good idea, though I could see how some would complain it would cause quadra segregation.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sumer1an View Post
    I would say its becoming more popular but it isn't really catching on. More people know about it now but typology as a hobby isnt becoming more popular. The only reason its becoming more well known is due to using the MBTI as a career test in schools and some companies making workers take it.
    I generally agree with you, but I think the fact that it is becoming more well known will inevitably result in more people taking it up as a hobby even if its a very small percentage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post

    That sounds like a good idea, though I could see how some would complain it would cause quadra segregation.
    True. I dont know if people would really complain about it necessarily, because it would probably be pleasant, but the question is, is it really a good thing to segregate quadras? I feel that part of my training was learning to get along with people of all sorts of personalities even if we didn't necessarily mesh naturally well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WorkaholicsAnon View Post
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    That sounds like a good idea, though I could see how some would complain it would cause quadra segregation.
    True. I dont know if people would really complain about it necessarily, because it would probably be pleasant, but the question is, is it really a good thing to segregate quadras? I feel that part of my training was learning to get along with people of all sorts of personalities even if we didn't necessarily mesh naturally well.
    Yeah, it has its plusses and minuses. Like having groups of four with one of each type would be a very pleasant experience indeed. However, it could spoil people into thinking that their relations with people should always be positive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    Yeah, it has its plusses and minuses. Like having groups of four with one of each type would be a very pleasant experience indeed. However, it could spoil people into thinking that their relations with people should always be positive.
    Meh, surely people would have had a school history before being spoilt by their workplace. Theories aren't widespread and trusted enough to apply them in schools at more than an amateur level. Also work places require people's expertise before their social meshing, so working with irritating people has a stable future. And thirdly type isn't a guarrantee of getting on with people, or even finding them nice or interesting. Social strife might be reduced, but certainly not eradicated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    However, it could spoil people into thinking that their relations with people should always be positive.
    This isn't the case? I mean some people you're forced into contact with aren't going to be pleasant to deal with, but why would you relations with other people be a pain in the ass if you can control it? Definitely something I picked up from Socionics is I can just get rid of people I don't like from my life and be happier for it.
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    MBTI is semi-well known (I think at least) and as Vero mentioned some schools dabble in it, and I've heard of employers using it to assess potential and current employees
    In the West, at least, MBTI seems to be fairly popular, there are far more forums, sites and active users involved in it than Socionics ones. But Socionics in Russia seems to have a fairly decent following (judging by the forums I've seen) although I don't know how popular it is as a whole over there.

    Discussions on Model A also seem to be more dominating in the Russia communities (from what I've seen) than they are in Western forums (this place, Socionix, Socionics.com) where there tends to be a lot of incorporating of MBTI/Jung/other theories that are puppeted as Socionics.
    I think it could be because we still use the Jungian 4 letter dichotomies (ex: we call an SLI ISTp, they call them SLI or Gabin) which probably causes confusion for people coming from the MBTI/Jung understanding which as I mentioned is far more prevalent over here (The West)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marie84 View Post
    Discussions on Model A also seem to be more dominating in the Russia communities (from what I've seen) than they are in Western forums (this place, Socionix, Socionics.com) where there tends to be a lot of incorporating of MBTI/Jung/other theories that are puppeted as Socionics.
    I think it could be because we still use the Jungian 4 letter dichotomies (ex: we call an SLI ISTp, they call them SLI or Gabin) which probably causes confusion for people coming from the MBTI/Jung understanding which as I mentioned is far more prevalent over here (The West)
    I think Socionics development has pretty much stopped here at the 16types and perhaps in the West altogether. Everyone either knows Model A well enough to type themselves and the people in their life, or they can browse past threads. It's unfortunate that some of the more advanced theories were lost in past forum and Wiki purges but unless there's a sustained Alpha Revival, the old development days are over for a while.

    Also, I personally like the 4 letter codes better as it's more easy to relate to for someone coming from MBTI unlike the 3 letter code words that're phonetically confusing with unrelated English words.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterNi View Post

    Also, I personally like the 4 letter codes better as it's more easy to relate to for someone coming from MBTI unlike the 3 letter code words that're phonetically confusing with unrelated English words.
    I personally think this is a problem. "Relating" to socionics from MBTI is not good and only spreads confusion between the 2 systems imo.

    This is a reason why I actually prefer using the 3 letter codes to refer to socionic types, just to distinguish them further from the MBTI types.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterNi View Post
    I think Socionics development has pretty much stopped here at the 16types and perhaps in the West altogether. Everyone either knows Model A well enough to type themselves and the people in their life, or they can browse past threads. It's unfortunate that some of the more advanced theories were lost in past forum and Wiki purges but unless there's a sustained Alpha Revival, the old development days are over for a while.

    Also, I personally like the 4 letter codes better as it's more easy to relate to for someone coming from MBTI unlike the 3 letter code words that're phonetically confusing with unrelated English words.
    Oh I'm not really for or against the 4 letter codes (it's all semantics to me), but I could see how someone who doesn't have a firm grasp on Socionics might confuse it as being identical to MBTI, which has happened a few times here, where someone has browsed for, say "INTJ" ends-up here and doesn't understand how it's different from "INTj"
    But in all fairness the sites name is "16types" so there's enough confusion there alone
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marie84 View Post
    But in all fairness the sites name is "16types" so there's enough confusion there alone
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