MBTI results is mostly about information preference. How it accumulates information is thru standardized testing and interview. Althrough there are many sites about MBTI, the full test/procedures is a little more comprehensive then what most people get. But how MBTI represents information preference is not as systematic as socionics.
Take INTp for example, its functional preference is
vs
for socionics ILI.
Augusta took the work of Jung and developed Model A. Which is the model of information exchange between Ego/Super-Ego/Super-ID/ID. She describes this information exchange in the aspects of reality as an object in motion, which starts from from rest as potential energy
and is sparked by
which generates kinetic energy
and then is turned into "work"
.
For relations of objects in motion she refer to this as the fields which are represented by the introverted functions.
Introverted Intution:
: Time
Introverted Sensing:
: Space
Introverted Thinking:
: Objective relations between object, the ratio of measurment, the differences in weight, size
Introverted Feeling:
: Attraction and repulsion between objects
So she relates these concepts of how reality is described in physics to the Jung psychological types which describes human personality. Which was a early description of information preference, with this information preference as a starting point, she hypothesized that we predominantly used a introverted information element together with a extroverted information element or vice versa. And this she deemed the ego block.
From this starting point she started to talk about love... And this is where we start discussing the other information blocks such as the Super-Ego(Persona),
Super-ID(Anima/Animus) and the ID(Shadow).
I will get more to the other block later, but Augusta basically proposed to us that we human beings prefer certain aspects(scientific even) of reality over others. And that this preference will shape our relationships with each other as hypothesized in Model A.
So the basic and main question of Socionics seeks to answer is....
Do human beings prefer certain aspects of reality versus others?
We can describe these aspect in newtonian terms or quantum physic terms, we can describe the psychological types in other terms perhaps memory or architecture, storage, processing speed.
I would say the question is worthy of our consideration even if the answer is not to our liking.