What's Wrong with Socionics - Take Two

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It's for the simple reason that if you can't explain "why", then you have no idea if it has anything to do with it or not.

Saying that there's a "type" is another way of saying that if someone is a certain way, then there's a very high probability that the person will be acting in the same way in the future. Which may be true.

But that's just an assumption that the person will be acting in the same or similar way in the future. It does in no way explain why he's acting in that way. It's just an attempt at predicting behavior and bypassing having to explain things. And a bad attempt at that, since true prediction isn't just expecting the same past trend to continue. Somebody may suddenly change his mind, and then what? The prediction becomes impossible.

But you can explain why he changed his mind.

Honestly this probably just doesn't bother me because I'm good at theoryweaving about why people are the way they are, in addition to enjoying being given the opportunity to do so. It's like a hangman game where you're given a few hints and get the joy of guessing and testing it and eventually figuring out the answer on your own. It's the blanks in the information that make it fun like a game.

You can also collect information each time you make a correct explanation for some specific individual situation, and add it back into your framework. HMM I wonder, maybe that's how everybody's been using Socionics all along. -.-

[Singu]

Honestly this probably just doesn't bother me because I'm good at theoryweaving about why people are the way they are, in addition to enjoying being given the opportunity to do so. It's like a hangman game where you're given a few hints and get the joy of guessing and testing it and eventually figuring out the answer on your own. It's the blanks in the information that make it fun like a game.

Yes you naturally come up with theories, because that's what people naturally do all the time. But Socionics is about removing and expunging all those theories and theorizing from its system.

You may think that Socionics is a theory, but if it were, then it would come up with explanations for why people are the way that they are.

[sbbds]

Yes you naturally come up with theories, because that's what people naturally do all the time. But Socionics is about removing and expunging all those theories and theorizing from its system.

You may think that Socionics is a theory, but if it were, then it would come up with explanations for why people are the way that they are.

In the colloquial sense, any statement on reality can be looked at as a kind of theory. Albeit I concede that it's not scientific on its own though, if I ever said that, not that it can't be taken and attempted to be made scientific, or have scientific thinking applied to it.