Well, since this "Absurd's Circus" thread was moved out of Everything Goes and now is here, plus other members are starting to take it seriously, I think I owe it at least one non-troll reply....
Objectively, I cannot say what either Jet or myself are in socionics as I simply do not have the experience or expertise with it to make such a determination. Socionics is totally new to me and I've been enjoying learning and reading about it. I am fairly well versed in Jung, MBTI and Enneagram though so I have pretty high certainty in our typologies in MBTI as well as Jungian functional representation.
I current believe myself to be LIE for several reasons: 1) The description fits me well, 2) The socionics function ordering and function descriptions fit me well (Te/Ni), 3) I'm ENTJ in MBTI and Enneagram Type 8, and 4) while testing can generally be inaccurate, I've taken multiple tests that all confirm the above.
As far as Jet goes, as I'm with her everyday IRL, I can say she clearly illustrates herself to be MBTI ISTP, as well as a Ti-dom from a purely Jung standpoint. Unfortunately, she is what I would consider a "borderline" case even in MBTI due to the flaws of any typology that tries to take more analog functional measurements and truncate them into 16 slabs or types. While most of her personality does base in ISTP, she has many of the struggles INTP's have as well.
Socionics? Like I said, I don't consider myself an expert enough to type her there.
Some points about Jet that may yield insight:
- Like many INTP's I work with, she does have difficulties getting her points across in writing. Many INTP's compensate by writing very elaborate, lengthy and fluid pieces so as their loose associations are better understood. Jet as sensing secondary hasn't had luck with this as of yet.
- Jet's first reaction to anything in reality or online is dissection and detail exploration. She's very old-school though and prefers paper over the glow of a computer screen, so if it's not in book form, then it's printed to be read. This is also why she tends to give more psychological credence to things that have more print form than online-only.
- On the dissection/detail exploration, her favorite pursuit is lengthy, details-oriented discussions on components, pieces and artifacts. Her biggest intellectual pitfall is one I see in all Ti-doms and that she gets hung-up on points of details that will disallow her to continue forward to get to the "big picture", which slows the learning process. i.e. we often have to take some things for granted/accept them on face value when learning new things because once we get to the big picture, those details we left behind will explain themselves much easier. She cannot do this- she'll need a detail clarified 100% and understood before she can proceed to the next thing, item or detail. If she can't, she'll pretty much boycott ever getting to the big picture entirely and shelve the whole thing.
- Jet has a long history of posting lengthy, multi-page replies with her justifications of what she believes and why, but usually to either fall on deaf ears (troll-fest internet) or with associations that others do not see the connection. (See the first item on this list for that). Often times explaining the associations is more effort for her initial point so now the scope, scale and effort has multiplied. With her, this leads to frustration with the receiver, not so much a call on the speaker. This has led her to a more "I believe this because it is so" stance when more simply (read: lack-luster) explanations do not suffice. She will put more time into her explanations if she senses there are ears that may understand them, else it's a moot point to even try.
- She has learned to deal with that frustration more healthily by making it a game. As so many have trolled her, the trolling back and thrill/fun of this becomes the preferred method if all else fails.
- Jet's systems can often times be impossibly complex to the point of being over-engineered. Everything in her life must have structure, order and organization.
- Intellectual systems of any kind are like drugs to her and she eagerly jumps to them, studies them for weeks (books, high-lighter pens, printouts all over the house, notes, etc.). She has jumped from mechanical engineering to electronics, to psychology, to dsm/disorder studies, to typology, mbti and now socionics.
- We consume, on average, 5 hours a day in intellectual discussion. She wants to discuss, debate and run details/pieces and components with me every day. She needs at least that much intellectual discussion a day else she goes bonkers.
- Jet is one of the most dissociative people I've ever met. She has an ISTP stare (also found in some INTP's) of being in her own head-space often and this produces many of her insights, be they right or wrong, with our discussions usually to determine that through objective and subjective dialogue and exploration.
- I do like the concept of her being ESI. That would make her my dual, no? Does that mean the sex would instantly get better?! (or knowing my luck, you sick bastards would then gang-up on me and re-typed me as a conflictor....)
Ok, sorry for the broken thoughts, typo's and such.. I'm doing this quickly while drinking my coffee before leaving for work, while also at the same time carrying on a discussion with Jet about psychology...