Quote Originally Posted by inacucumber View Post
Ah yes, I did type myself separately. Their claims are making me question the correlation between the theories, I guess.

How would you explain to someone that socionics NeFi does not necessarily mean MBTI NeFi?
socionics Ne is different from MBTI Ne. Socionics Fi is different from MBTI Fi. The two systems just have a slightly different focus. It takes some getting used to, to wrap one's mind around the socionic focus. A very general oversimplified way to see it is MBTI looks at general personal characteristics. Socionics tries to focus on information processing (i.e. the way one's mind processes information, aka information "metabolism"), and in doing so can also then be applied to interpersonal interactions (how do you process information coming from another person? is it easily "digestible" to you? is it like they're speaking a foreign language and fraught with mutual misunderstandings?). Therein lies the value of socionics, in my opinion.