A question directed to those that know about socionics

erg · Dec 5, 2016

I see that many of you have found out their socionics type. So I ask you this; why are you still using MBTI when you have already discovered Socionics?

Doctor Cringelord · Dec 5, 2016

It's hard to avoid because MBTI is still more popular in many English-speaking countries, so people wind up speaking a typology language that is a hybrid of socionics and Myers-Briggs concepts. There's also a lot of overlap between the systems, even if the framework is quite different past the external similarities.

erg · Dec 5, 2016

Anaximander said:
It's hard to avoid because MBTI is still more popular in many English-speaking countries, so people wind up speaking a typology language that is a hybrid of socionics and Myers-Briggs concepts. There's also a lot of overlap between the systems, even if the framework is quite different past the external similarities.

But objetively speaking, Socionics is the superior theory, and the way I see it, they are mutually exclusive (because they deal with the same phenomena-- that is, the presence of 8 aspects of reality that form 16 possible types of people).

cosmic royal · Dec 11, 2016

It's because MBTI is easier to digest than Socionics. I'm no expert in the latter, far from it. I'm still learning everything I can. Although I do prefer cognitive functions at the moment, I agree that Socionics is much more comprehensive. Doesn't eliminate how mind-twisting it is to first-timers.

erg · Dec 12, 2016

But MBTI is ridden with problems. Depending on the source, a description might sound like one type or another type altogether. They are also disconnected from the functions that a type is supposed to have. This causes people mistype themselves all the time. Socionics also has some problems (mainly in the area of the definitions of information aspects) but at least what you are in socionics, is what you really are. I rest my case; I don't know what I am in MBTI. But I know for sure (confirmed by intertype relations) what I am in Socionics. Socionics has Model A, which represents reality much much better than the crap MBTI has about "inferior", "trickster" or whatever.