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"What's my Socionics type?" questionnaire


Personal concepts
1. What is beauty? What is love?
2. What are your most important values?
3. Do you have any sort of spiritual/religious beliefs, and why do you hold (or don't) those beliefs in the first place?
4. Opinion on war and militaries? What is power to you?

Interests
5. What have you had long conversations about? What are your interests? Why?
6. Interested in health/medicine as a conversation topic? Are you focused on your body?
7. What do you think of daily chores?
8. Books or films you liked? Recently read/watched or otherwise. Examples welcome.
9. What has made you cry? What has made you smile? Why?
10. Where do you feel: at one with the environment/a sense of belonging?

Evaluation & Behaviour
11. What have people seen as your weaknesses? What do you dislike about yourself?
12. What have people seen as your strengths? What do you like about yourself?
13. In what areas of your life would you like help?
14. Ever feel stuck in a rut? If yes, describe the causes and your reaction to it.

People & Interactions
15. What qualities do you most like and dislike in other people? What types do you get along with?
16. How do you feel about romance/sex? What qualities do you want in a partner?
17. If you were to raise a child, what would be your main concerns, what measures would you take, and why?
18. A friend makes a claim that clashes with your current beliefs. What is your inward and outward reaction?
19. Describe your relationship to society. How do you see people as a whole? What do you consider a prevalent social problem? Name one.
20. How do you choose your friends and how do you behave around them?
21. How do you behave around strangers?
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This questionnaire was created by several people:
@esq - the author of original questions, most of which are included in the current version.
@aconite (me) - responsible for starting the attempt to create a questionnaire, compiling and polishing questions.

Also, I'd like to thank our contributors/critics/co-authors (in alphabetical order): @Almost @FacelessBeauty @LeaT @Paradigm @PimpinMcBoltage @Probably @StellarTwirl
 

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1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is something shared but only by the feeling toward it everyone has their own ways for seeing something/someone as beautiful and everyone has different opinion as to what is beautiful and what isn’t but in my opinion everything and everyone is beautiful it just takes the right eyes to see it. Pure love is a feeling toward something and a sacred connection but love comes in many different shapes and sizes; love’s qualities all depend on the specifics of the circumstances particularly who feels it and why.
2. My values are mostly based on ideals and too involved to explain here.
3. I have no religious beliefs but I am a very spiritual person.
4. War and militaries are only just when absolutely necessary or to prevent the extinction of a culture. But when is war necessary? Almost never. If issues can be talked out or a leader cannot see another way to handle it that is unjust. War is just a primitive solution to problems that could be solved a more civil way. Power is a combination of control and capacity with (use)goals or desires. My ideals as far as whether power should or shouldn’t exist and how my ideals could work or be actualized regarding power is another thing entirely.
5. Psychology, spirituality, emotion, intimacy, ideals, personal problems and things that effect me or someone else emotionally.
6. No.
7. Monotonous but necessary.
8. Fight club, scott pilgrim vs. the world, ten things I hate about you, breakfast club, Donnie darko, etc.
9. Nothing makes me cry or smile it something does it is brief, rare and lacks intensity. All emotions are far beneath the surface and sheltered from possible pain.
10. Never.
11. Showing emotion, organization, diligence, keeping appointments/ plans.
12. Emotional depth when comfortable, open-mindedness, empathy, intelligence.
13. Refer to 11’s answer.
14. Yes, all the time. Sleeping too much, boredom and significantly less motivation than usual.
15. The type I can have a deep intellectual conversations with, can accept me for who I am and has the capacity and interest in who I am. I like someone who I find interesting. I have little to no tolerance for emphasis on appearance, materialism or people who get unnecessarily emotional and take things too personally.
16. Interest and understanding for/of each other, shared interests love. I look for qualities that hard to put into words.
17. Happiness, acceptance, independent thought. I would try to guide them. I would treat it as a learning experience, an opportunity for personal growth.
18. I just want to understand and discuss it to it’s fullest extent because there a good chance I will learn something and be able to refine my beliefs.
19. I am an observer. People are very different and society is complex. Though there are things about human nature and society that can be learned through either observation, intuition and education. I see imperfections and I see civilization under evolved and a journey to happiness but there are certain consistencies.
20. Based on my knowledge of someone, I don’t know it’s kind of an intuition thing. If I am curious about someone I try to get to know them
21. Distant.
 

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In my opinion these widely utilized questions are not particularly good because they are highly abstract, rather than neutral. Socionics tells us -- or rather, theorizes -- that people have different perspectives in orienting themselves to the world, some of which are directed towards abstract values much like these questions, and some of which are not. It would be better, in my opinion, to design a set of questions that is more open-ended so as to allow people to describe their own world perspective, rather than telling them that concepts such as "beauty," or "the military," or indeed even things like "daily chores" are important aspects of their identity and then asking them for further clarification.
 

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@aconite, thanks for this! The questions are good, but I'm not sure how much they really get into the functions (elements). I liked the site you found: Sociotypograph and perhaps there should be another Questionnaire based on it, asking people to elaborate on why they chose each particular choice.
 

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In my opinion these widely utilized questions are not particularly good because they are highly abstract, rather than neutral. Socionics tells us -- or rather, theorizes -- that people have different perspectives in orienting themselves to the world, some of which are directed towards abstract values much like these questions, and some of which are not. It would be better, in my opinion, to design a set of questions that is more open-ended so as to allow people to describe their own world perspective, rather than telling them that concepts such as "beauty," or "the military," or indeed even things like "daily chores" are important aspects of their identity and then asking them for further clarification.
Well, there's just been moderate success at best when people are asked to describe themselves and how they are like as people. I have that question in my MBTI questionnaire and when I didn't add anything specific to it, some people, especially sensors, had great troubles understanding what was really asked of them. They needed more specific and concrete details to work with.

Even then, a lot of people didn't know what to say, it became too open-ended. Also, if you ask people to just write about themselves, chances are that you might actually not get the information you are looking for at all. We're not giving out free therapy sessions; we're trying to type people.

We have to make a trade-off between what's fast and efficient and yet provides with somewhat accurate results. I think it will be hard to get away from more specific questions for that reason alone. If your objection is about language used, then that's a problem since we are naturally inhibited by language itself and language controls communication. Regional and personal interpretations of language will occur, and language shapes our worlds. Yet there is also a universal quality most people can understand, even if this understanding is simply learned rather than innate, e.g. the word "war" will still infer to some basic idea of people fighting and killing each other as a result of trying to control a territory. A very much imagined one, but a territory nevertheless. And we have dictionaries that are meant to summarize the most common understanding of a word evne if this is not true across the board.

I do believe that humans interpret everything subjectively at some level simply because my reality is not your reality and even if the sensory input is the same, e.g. an image of a starving African child, the meaning of this image will be different to us. My impression is that you got troubles with how people attach different meanings to a word rather than the word itself. Sometimes the word just is.
 

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Well, there's just been moderate success at best when people are asked to describe themselves and how they are like as people. I have that question in my MBTI questionnaire and when I didn't add anything specific to it, some people, especially sensors, had great troubles understanding what was really asked of them. They needed more specific and concrete details to work with.

Even then, a lot of people didn't know what to say, it became too open-ended. Also, if you ask people to just write about themselves, chances are that you might actually not get the information you are looking for at all. We're not giving out free therapy sessions; we're trying to type people.

We have to make a trade-off between what's fast and efficient and yet provides with somewhat accurate results. I think it will be hard to get away from more specific questions for that reason alone. If your objection is about language used, then that's a problem since we are naturally inhibited by language itself and language controls communication. Regional and personal interpretations of language will occur, and language shapes our worlds. Yet there is also a universal quality most people can understand, even if this understanding is simply learned rather than innate, e.g. the word "war" will still infer to some basic idea of people fighting and killing each other as a result of trying to control a territory. A very much imagined one, but a territory nevertheless. And we have dictionaries that are meant to summarize the most common understanding of a word evne if this is not true across the board.

I do believe that humans interpret everything subjectively at some level simply because my reality is not your reality and even if the sensory input is the same, e.g. an image of a starving African child, the meaning of this image will be different to us. My impression is that you got troubles with how people attach different meanings to a word rather than the word itself. Sometimes the word just is.
fair points -- on the topic of asking for specific input, i would prefer to have some more tangible information like "what do you do for a living" and "what do you study" in contrast to the rather abstract values-and-individuality driven questions that people like you and esq came up with, but i recognize this is just as much a bias.
 

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For those looking to find their Socionics type, one great way to type yourself under that system & bypass some of the common false stereotypes is to use Reinin dichotomies.

- Reinin Dichotomies Research Results
- Reinin Dichotomies Wikisocion
- Reinin Dichotomy Type Calculator

Read about and try to evaluate yourself on at least these five dichotomies: Static/Dynamic, Merry/Serious, Decisive/Judicious, Tactical/Strategic, Positivist/Negativist. This will help to narrow down your type to a few.
 

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For those looking to find their Socionics type, one great way to type yourself under that system & bypass some of the common false stereotypes is to use Reinin dichotomies.

- Reinin Dichotomies Research Results
- Reinin Dichotomies Wikisocion
- Reinin Dichotomy Type Calculator

Read about and try to evaluate yourself on at least these five dichotomies: Static/Dynamic, Merry/Serious, Decisive/Judicious, Tactical/Strategic, Positivist/Negativist. This will help to narrow down your type to a few.
At face value they are elusive and easily lead to mistypes but once you start asking why he created them, things begin to make a lot more sense.
 
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Personal concepts
1. Beauty is a very subjective thing. Beauty could be the way that someone does something, beauty could be how someone looks. I tend to use the word "beautiful" when talking about something that puts me in awe.
2. I find all of my values to be important. I would have too many to list.
3. I'm a nihilist, I have no religious affiliation at all. And i don't hold any affiliation because there is no reason for me to believe.
4. My opinion on war. Well if we look at what my home country is doing (USA) I would say that we should take our troops out of everywhere. We are wasting over 2 billion dollars per day blowing people up for no reason. And what is power? Power can be many different things. If we are talking about a country power then i would say that power would be a great economy, great engineering, great science, freedom on the individual, and so forth.

Interests
5. My conversations will be about science, psychology or politics most of the time. I will often talk about video games with my friends too.
6. I'll sometimes talk about poisons and things that have been proven unhealthy(does that count as health and medicine?). No, not really focused on my body.
7. When I get to decide them I tend to kind of enjoy them. When I don't I hate it.
8. Enders shadow, DeathNote, Full Metal Alchemist, Breaking bad.
9. It's been a while since i have cried. Lot's of things make me smile. I will smile after laughter, I'll smile when i'm around someone of sexual interest. I also really love the feeling of getting something right. I love being able to finish writing a program and seeing it work, and stuff like that.
10. Being alone at nigh time.
Evaluation & Behaviour
11. People see me as socially retarded (being that I am). I think i would like to improve my physical image.
12. when people give me complements they often tell me that I'm intelligent. I like my intelligence.
13. I would like to become more knowledgeable of science and math (I'm already up there, but i really want to become better) I want to be a great scientist who has made great discoveries. (maybe add to string theory)
14. I never really feel happy, not depressed, but not happy. My reaction to it would really just be to want happiness.

People & Interactions
15. I love enfp's (MBTI) they're just so fun! And i really enjoy it when people are smart, there is nothing worse than an idiot. I hate dumb people. I detest dumb people. I hate it when people act like being good at schoolwork makes you an intelligent person. I also get along with other intellectual types quite easy.
16. Romanticly... This is a hard question because i haven't had much experience here. Well i obviously wouldn't want a stupid or dogmatic woman. Really I think I would like someone with the characteristics of the enfp.
17. I would definitely be sure to tone down the yelling. I believe the constant yelling in my house has caused all my anxiety problems. And I would make sure to help build my child's confidence.
18. Fun, let's start a debate.
19. My relationship to society? Ummm... Not good? I think people are getting to stupid. Retards are multiplining like rabits while the more intelligent people aren't having children because it doesn't benifit them. In a few hundred years we are going to see a horrible shit-stain instead of the humanity we see today.
20. I let people come up to me, and if I enjoy their company I wont argue with it. I act a lot more open and "silly" around friends.
21. Reserved.
 
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