Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
I am guilty of doing this, but not because I think that typing by stereotypes and VI is the best method. I actually think that it yields correct results only about half the time, and typing by more formal informational methods gives better results.

When I first arrived at this forum, no one liked or believed in VI methods, and I was pretty terrible at being able to discern people’s correct types. I might be slightly better at this now, but I still suck at it.

The whole reason I first started to type by VI was that my purpose in learning Socionics was to be able to identify Duals for dating, and the largest source of Duals are online dating services, where you only get a few pictures of a person along with some very ambiguous notes from their life that they think are important. You can’t really give each of the one or two hundred people you might see in a dating site a Socionics test, so you have to fall back on stereotypes and VI, then text them and date them for a while to get more information.

I use VI, but I have sometimes been very surprised when someone whom I thought was one type eventually turned out to be a different type. In other words, my typing method, while quick and generally applicable, is not perfect because it misses certain pieces of information.

But I’d like to point out that every method of typing that I’m aware of will miss some information and will therefore make some mistypes.
Imo EP types which are C, IJ types which are N, EJ types which are D and IP types which are H.. can easily be spotted due to being stereotypical. Other than that with the introduction of DCNH, it gets confusing. It is especially easy to confuse one's conflictor for one's dual as they are quasi-identicals. Its kinda dangerous tbh, I prefer to just go by instinct and watch for red flags when it comes to women. Plus she'd have to chose me :/ aka I'd have to be her first option for me to even give the relationship a shot, but thats just me. I don't rely on ITR, my reason for getting typed had to do with trying to figure out what to do with life, not relationships.