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.
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.For Socionics to have any kind of validity, human behaviour necessarily needs to be predictable. I am not convinced that it is even true.
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.Why are you assuming that i haven't studied the theory?
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...
Maybe it depends what you mean by predicting behaviour.But Afaik, Jung doesn't use his psychological profiles to predict behavior.
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.
Socionics has gone further than Jung here. Jung is aware that type influences people's preferences though.Neither does he use it to calculate compatibility between people.