Okay so I'm usually against the concept of dichotomies but since I am hitting a wall now that I'm redetermining my type, I thought I would give it some consideration. I don't know as much about Socionics as I would like, so I apologize if this is an asshole's way of going about it. Here's what I did. I went on
Sociotype's page on dichotomies and went through each tab and carefully considered where I stand with each one. Then I wrote down all the types associated with each dichotomy, which looked like this:
Seems like a lot, I know. The asterisks are to represent dichotomies I couldn't really choose between. After that, I counted how much of each type correlated with me, which came out to be this:
ENTp: 13 *** (10)
ESFj: 9
ENFj: 9 ** (7)
ISTp: 9 ** (7)
INTp: 9 ** (7)
ENFp: 7 * (6)
ESFp: 7 * (6)
ISFp: 7 * (6)
ENTj: 7 ** (5)
ISTj: 7 ** (5)
ESTj: 7 ** (5)
INFp: 7 ** (5)
INTj: 7 ** (5)
INFj: 5 * (4)
ISFj: 5 * (4)
ESTp: 5 * (4)
Now the asterisks here represent how many of the uncertain dichotomies applied to the count. ENTp being the only type with all three uncertainties and ESFj being the only type with none. The number in parenthesis is the number if uncertain dichotomies didn't count. ENTp and ESFj are at the top.
Comparing both with ENFp, my previous/current typing, I do not relate to the ENTp's interpretation of Creative Ti, though I did identify with the ESTP's description of it. I also do not identify with ENTP's or ENFP's interpretation of Role Se, as both describe it as something that the person is reluctant to use (which I am not). However, an ENTP's Vulnerable Fi and Ignoring Ni is relatable, as well as the ENFP description of Mobilizing Si. I identify with ESFj's entire Super-Ego block, but almost every single other aspect of the ESFj portrait is unrelatable.
I did a lot of research on ESTps, like @
magpie suggested, but while the conscious functions seem to be accurate for me, the unconscious functions don't reflect me at all. I think most people of my tritype are likely to be SLEs though. (Can you confirm/deny, @
miss fortune?)
@
Xann suggested ENFj on multiple occasions and that description is much closer to my functioning, minus Leading Fe and Demonstrative Ne.
I present all of this to ask,
how should I go about this now? I have a general idea of what types I
might be (IEE, ILE, EIE) but how do I narrow that down? What do
you all think I am?
Edit: Oh! And I almost forgot. I'm not sure how much it plays a role in determining type, but I completely identify as Delta (thank you [MENTION=23915]Hawthorne[/MENTION] and @zang for helping me out a bit there) and my romance style is almost entirely Infantile.