Quote Originally Posted by Lord Panda View Post
I notice there is a lot of emphasis on dating which is the least interesting thing to me. If we're talking about dating, there is substantial evidence from real life psychology that we tend to follow certain attractions from our childhood. We carry with us, the relationships from our early childhood and we seek familiarity. There are also other demonstrated affects, like the difference between sexual expression between men and women, hypergamy in women, general promiscuity, the cultural influences, etc. Socionics only captures the interpersonal part of it. This can be extended to other interpersonal relationships and even life experiences as well.
There are obviously other factors in attraction/dating than Socionics. But Socionics is an important factor. And you can discover and learn Socionics by dating a lot. The more the better. That's how I discovered duality for example.

Learning Socionis is to a great extent about sorting out non-socionics factors and trying to get to the type factors.

For Socionics to have any kind of validity, human behaviour necessarily needs to be predictable. I am not convinced that it is even true.
To me this sounds like you don't have enough real-life experience with the types yet. To me it's obvious at this point that human behaviour is predictable, to some extent. Or lets say that I know what to expect from certain people.

Why are you assuming that i haven't studied the theory?
I didn't really assume that, or I didn't mean to give that impression. From reading what you write I assume that you don't have enough experience with typing people and experiencing the types in real life. All the theory, reading Jung etc. is useless if you don't dive into the practical problem of getting to know the types.

You need to know what it's like to date a dual, or work with a dual. Many duals. You need to hang out with your conflictor. And so on...

But Afaik, Jung doesn't use his psychological profiles to predict behavior.
Maybe it depends what you mean by predicting behaviour.
He talks about what you can expect from the types. Not detailed prediction, but still. From a LII you can expect some analytical behaviour for example.

Neither does he use it to calculate compatibility between people.
Socionics has gone further than Jung here. Jung is aware that type influences people's preferences though.