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    What are your thoughts on the differences between the two systems?
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    Ti creative bent is very clear in socionics. If we assume that MBTI was created by Fi based individual I can see some Ti role in it and Te suggestive (businesses seeking aspects). Socionics is much more academic than MBTI. MBTI is business and meant for understanding relations without mental systematic masturbation. Just accept others because we think in different ways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unsuccessfull Alphamale View Post
    Ti creative bent is very clear in socionics. If we assume that MBTI was created by Fi based individual I can see some Ti role in it and Te suggestive (businesses seeking aspects). Socionics is much more academic than MBTI. MBTI is business and meant for understanding relations without mental systematic masturbation. Just accept others because we think in different ways.
    I agree that Socionics is very Ti. Alpha NT more specifically. The whole system is TiNe (and especially Model A which is supposed to show us how our minds function with oh-so-exact estimations and measures), while Intertype Rel. are Ti creative business.

    However MBTI stuff is mostly Je imo >> Te-Fe combo. I would limit myself to Te if it weren't so full of errors that come in the form of stereotypes and ready-made (preconceived) notions about people that are supposed to tell you everything about anyone who belongs into a type. It goes far beyond a functional approach into pure "profiling". Plus some mbti descriptions are so low quality and pathetic ... Imo Socionics has a more scientific bent and with some folks who write you even get artistic flair (even Strats). It's not super-predictable repetitive lingo meant for mastrurbation. And I say that without being a Socionics fan ...I'm aware of its limitations. Nyway in mbti I dunno if I can stand reading anything except for TypeLogic ...which is prolly written by a relatively smart LII.

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    MBTI is 4 noobz. Socionics master race.




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    MBTI is better because it gives you a bunch of descriptions which applies fairly well to people engaged in the external world whereas socionics gives you a bunch of hoo doo concepts of styles of thinking and whatnot which leaves one wondering if it's the best thing since sliced bread or just a huge troll-a-thon. By the time you've figured it out you don't want to let it go. MBTI is more suck it and see and you move on with the floorshow.

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    I agree w/ words. MBTI is superior. It's also more easily correlated to other theories like big 5. http://www.dec.co.th/mbti_explanation.htm has some correlations, & while not absolute, still pretty much show the way. Big five isn't the only "system of fives" either, there's the alternative five & HEXACO & MOTIV system for instance which might show stronger correlation to MBTI then big five. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna...of_personality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEXACO_...lity_structure http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...596-MOTIV-Test

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    Quote Originally Posted by zap View Post
    I agree w/ words. MBTI is superior. It's also more easily correlated to other theories like big 5. http://www.dec.co.th/mbti_explanation.htm has some correlations, & while not absolute, still pretty much show the way. Big five isn't the only "system of fives" either, there's the alternative five & HEXACO & MOTIV system for instance which might show stronger correlation to MBTI then big five. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna...of_personality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEXACO_...lity_structure http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...596-MOTIV-Test
    Big 5 and lexical models are not "theories," they are statistical overindulgence with no theoretical basis whatsoever. The American tradition of academic psychology has accomplished nothing of note in the past 100 years while adhering zealously to statistical methods in a pathetic bid to imitate real science. What they ignore is that before natural sciences progressed to the point where statistical methods could be fruitful, they first had to create extensive theoretical frameworks.

    In my view psychology should try to imitate another cognitive science that actually has accomplished something in the 20th / 21st centuries, namely linguistics. Linguists are in the habit of building theoretical models based on their intuitions and then testing those models to see how well they explain the data or make predictions -- no statistical nincompoopery required. With this method linguists have advanced our understanding of human languages tremendously within the past 60 years.

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    Nefnaf, idk if you think socionics can somehow be proven thru linguistics or if you consider socionics as a good example of what can be done w/ a more linguistic framework (i.e. if you consider socionics to be linguistic, after all, there's that list of words associated w/ fxns) or what exactly you're getting at. But what I know for sure is that big five, etc can be correlated to real things like genes. The warrior gene MAOA prolly correlates to lower agreeableness, as might the ruthlessness gene http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0804....2008.738.html

    Those on the worrier side of warrior/worrier dichotomy prolly have higher neuroticism. http://selfhacked.com/2014/12/24/wor...mt-v158m-gene/ Personality disorders are said to be related to genes, & big five make ups have been suggested for each personality disorder, you can such correlations at ptypes.com, for one. http://www.apa.org/topics/personalit...rs-causes.aspx http://www.ptypes.com/borderlinepd.html

    As far as linguistics goes, idk about that field much but seems like it's somewhat subjective. Here's the list I mentioned earlier http://wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Vocabulary while it can be correlated that way, it still doesn't give us an objective basis for socionics. Ppl don't really agree on anything in socionics or if it even exists so this list can prolly be contested, if not in one way, then another.

    I don't consider MBTI all that good either but it's okay for what it is. Socionics wastes a lot more time w/ it's complexity. It's like it exploits the tendency in humans to want everything to make sense so ppl just keep trying to make everything fit but never really get anywhere, and so it goes on & on. Socionics is Sisyphean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zap View Post
    Nefnaf, idk if you think socionics can somehow be proven thru linguistics or if you consider socionics as a good example of what can be done w/ a more linguistic framework (i.e. if you consider socionics to be linguistic, after all, there's that list of words associated w/ fxns) or what exactly you're getting at. But what I know for sure is that big five, etc can be correlated to real things like genes. The warrior gene MAOA prolly correlates to lower agreeableness, as might the ruthlessness gene http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0804....2008.738.html

    Those on the worrier side of warrior/worrier dichotomy prolly have higher neuroticism. http://selfhacked.com/2014/12/24/wor...mt-v158m-gene/ Personality disorders are said to be related to genes, & big five make ups have been suggested for each personality disorder, you can such correlations at ptypes.com, for one. http://www.apa.org/topics/personalit...rs-causes.aspx http://www.ptypes.com/borderlinepd.html

    As far as linguistics goes, idk about that field much but seems like it's somewhat subjective. Here's the list I mentioned earlier http://wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Vocabulary while it can be correlated that way, it still doesn't give us an objective basis for socionics. Ppl don't really agree on anything in socionics or if it even exists so this list can prolly be contested, if not in one way, then another.

    I don't consider MBTI all that good either but it's okay for what it is. Socionics wastes a lot more time w/ it's complexity. It's like it exploits the tendency in humans to want everything to make sense so ppl just keep trying to make everything fit but never really get anywhere, and so it goes on & on. Socionics is Sisyphean.
    There are certainly a lot of ideas floating around in socionics that are wrong. As the famous quote goes "all models are wrong, but some are useful." Simply the fact that many hypotheses are wrong is no reason to get discouraged. The whole project has two components: 1) generating plausible ideas, and 2) separating the incorrect / non-useful ideas from the correct / useful ones, and then refining and building upon the latter in a way that feeds back into step 1. Carl Jung gave us a theoretical framework that we can work with. Socionics refined it to the point where it can be readily applied in many if not all contexts.

    Think of college freshmen beginning to learn about a particular discipline. What do they learn in introductory biology classes? Chemistry? Physics? In all of these they start of learning theory -- the basic theoretical backgrounds of their respective fields. Only psychology eschews theory in favor of doting over statistics. And it has failed so spectacularly, the explanation for why they keep trying would make for an excellent psychological case study in itself.

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