LINEAR CORRELATION BETWEEN INTUITIVE AND SENSING, LOGICAL AND ETHICAL ABILITIES, MEASURED IN THEIR PUREST FORM (without using questions from the opposite pole of the trait)

The results of the experiment with questionnaires 097 and 098 (797 respondents in total) show that the negative correlation between Intuition and Sensing, as well as between Logic and Ethics, is quite real and sufficiently large. At the same time, it is nevertheless significantly higher between Intuition and Sensing (because of the deeper antagonism of the mechanisms underlying them).

In the sample balanced by type composition, the correlation between Intuition and Ethics is minimized in magnitude but remains weakly positive. It must be supposed that the weak positive correlation between Intuition and Ethics is objective in nature (probably caused by the shared reliance of their mechanisms, first, on the limbic system, and second – on the right hemisphere, with its predominance of generalization of nervous processes over their selectivity).

The differences between the results in the subsamples of socionics-naive and socionics-experienced respondents are far from significant enough to make it possible to say that the negative correlation between Logic and Ethics is supposedly caused by effects of autosuggestion. No, their mechanisms are indeed partially antagonistic. This is all the more true of the relationship between Intuition and Sensing (the antagonism between them is very pronounced).

P/S The results in the first table were obtained on samples balanced by type composition, and those in the second - on samples not balanced by type composition.

Why are the correlations for questionnaire 097 somewhat higher than for questionnaire 098? Because in questionnaire 097 all ability scales use questions with weighting coefficients, whereas in questionnaire 098 the responses to the questions of the corresponding scales were all summed with the same unit weight. That is, in questionnaire 098 the scales were somewhat coarser and slightly noisier.

V. L. Talanov

Linear correlation between abilities measured in their pure form
(without using questions from the opposite pole of the trait)

Questionnaire 097 (360 respondents)

Questionnaire 098 (437 respondents)

Conclusion: the negative shared overlap of Logic and Ethics is from 19 to 27% of the variance; that of Intuition and Sensing is from 56 to 68% of the variance (square of the correlation coefficient).

Correlations between abilities measured in isolation in subsamples:
(without quantitative balancing of the samples by type)

Socionics-naive (level 1, 121 people)

Socionics-experienced (level 3-4, 305 people)

Examples of questions for isolated measurement of abilities (questionnaire 097)

After the questions, their weight in the scale is indicated:

INTUITION

1. I have periods of dreaminess. 1.148
2. At times I seem to dissolve into the universe, forgetting about my body, forgetting about pain and pleasure. 1.142 My strong point is premonition, foreseeing impending changes. 1.139
3. During the day I often catch myself once again thinking deeply and “dropping out of reality.” 1.127
4. I am sensitive to perceiving very “subtle” and weak probabilities - often, thanks to this, I notice in my surroundings those tendencies that other people fail to notice at all. 1.120
5. Foreseeing, premonition, prediction - this describes me; I am constantly in a kind of roving, oscillatory movement, a mental search, and earlier than others I notice from the smallest details that the situation has changed radically, while other people are still captive to stubborn old schemas. 1.115
6. I know how to adapt to the vicissitudes of existence by retreating into an imaginary world. 1.100
7. I often indulge in mental games in which my imagination runs away into other invented worlds. 0.982
8. Sometimes, for a few moments, I lose contact with reality and cease to feel what is happening, although at such times I am not thinking about anything extraneous either. 0.982
9. My mind often wanders, unable to concentrate. 0.963
10. I often “immerse myself” in the future, indulging in dreams, hopes, or fears. 0.954
11. My imagination is set in motion by the slightest things. 0.946
12. Some thoughts and mental images simply haunt me. 0.822
13. Most of the time I am constantly occupied with various thoughts that arise in me involuntarily for all sorts of reasons. 0.710

14. In my assessments I am always a sober realist and rely only on collected facts, without any conjectures or fantasies. -0.700
15. I am not interested in theoretical discussions. -0.720
16. I do not like discussions of alternatives and possibilities; I prefer unambiguous situations. -0.739
17. I am guided mainly by what is familiar, has already proven itself, and is known to me from experience. -0.748
18. Everything that is not visually evident, that cannot be seen, heard, smelled, or touched, readily arouses my distrust and suspicion. -0.815
19. I prefer to avoid hints and nuances and say exactly what I mean. -0.861
20. Real visual and tactile stimuli from a member of the sex that interests me sexually arouse me much more than any fantasies. -0.924
21. When explaining something to people, I always resort to visible, concrete examples rather than abstractions or references to intuition. -0.982
22. Satisfying a real need is more important to me than satisfying curiosity. -1.003
23. Speculative assumptions are alien to me; to become convinced of something, I need to see and touch it directly. -1.070
24. Assessments of the past and thoughts about the future occupy me little; I mostly live in the present moment and the current day. -1.082
25. I am much more interested in applying something in practice than in searching for hidden meanings. -1.162
26. I do not like empty lofty dreaming and prefer to live real life - it is better to polish my shoes. -1.228
27. I prefer to work with concrete, tangible things rather than imaginary or speculative ones. -1.330

SENSING

1. I am a petit bourgeois in the good sense of the word - what matters most to me is the well-being of today, and I am interested in what is near me rather than somewhere far away. 1.416
2. I do not make superfluous, uncertain, trembling, or “loose” movements: my movements are always concise, confident, and “polished.” 1.353
3. People close to me always feel protected when they are near me. 1.023
4. My main incentive is material well-being, that is, the opportunity to live “no worse than others” and to create a comfortable and convenient environment at home with the money I earn. 1.007
5. I can always instantly and deftly catch a dropped matchbox or a falling object. 1.001
6. My principle is: “what I do not see does not exist.” 0.999
7. I am stable and conservative in matters of aesthetic taste and surroundings, and I always know exactly which objects I need. 0.988
8. If I am cleaning the house, I think only about that (if I am thinking about anything at all at the time). 0.964
9. I have an excellent eye for measurement and constant, effortless visual attention that “goes to sleep” only together with me. 0.961
10. In matters of habitual comfort, I am stubborn and can even enter into conflict. 0.951
11. I often focus on the pleasant, consciously perceived sensation of the coordinated and obedient work of the muscles of my body. 0.944
12. I can be inflexibly stubborn in matters of arranging a room and positioning furniture. 0.941
13. I orient myself very well in the surrounding space, as though I always have a map of it in my head - with my eyes closed or in the dark, I can easily walk through an apartment without bumping into anything. 0.852
14. Nature has endowed me with endurance and health, which I try to maintain through physical exercise, folk medicine, and other methods that are unconventional for doctors. 0.840

15. Even normally - outside infectious illnesses - I experience states of heat and bodily trembling, during which my heart also pounds rapidly, my hands tremble slightly, and my thoughts are rapid and jumping, making them difficult to fix on anything. -0.803
16. I feel fatigue, lethargy, or slowness of movement. -0.819
17. I rather frequently experience states with muscular weakness and a certain confusion of consciousness and diffuseness of attention. -0.829
18. Sometimes I have such a strange illusion that it is as though I do not exist - the world around me that I perceive exists, but I am not in it. -0.843
19. Sometimes the surrounding space and objects seem strangely distorted to me. -0.846
20. When I am agitated and preoccupied by something, I begin to feel awkwardness in my gait. -0.862
21. When I am looking around a room for some misplaced object, I sometimes fail to see it for a long time even when looking directly at it, although afterward it turns out that it was lying in a fairly conspicuous place. -0.864
22. In photographs I usually appear with my gaze directed somewhere into the distance, into infinity. -0.870
23. Sometimes while walking I feel that I am suddenly being “pulled” somewhere to the side. -0.993
24. Sometimes there are such amusing “lapses” in consciousness that at times I cannot even immediately figure out where I am. -1.014
25. Sometimes it is difficult to immediately figure out where and in exactly what place I am at the present moment - this spell can last several seconds or longer. -1.017
26. I would prefer to work more with my tongue than with my hands. -1.071
27. Sometimes my own body seems alien to me. -1.215

LOGIC

1. I am interested in the rules and regularities governing numbers in mathematics. 1.471
2. I easily understand complex mechanisms. 1.466
3. I would make an excellent analyst, mathematician, programmer, or geologist. 1.405
4. I have “iron” logic; in my conclusions I never confuse cause and effect. 1.255
5. My logical chains of reasoning are always error-free and impeccably precise in their short links and details. 1.237
6. I easily understand drawings and spatial diagrams. 1.187
7. My thinking is clearer, more logical, and more consistent than that of most other people. 1.140
8. I instantly notice other people’s minor logical errors. 1.137
9. I like all kinds of structural diagrams and enjoy looking at them. 1.032
10. I am better than others at operating with symbols of things and concepts, and better than others at calculating time and money. 1.004
11. I have clear “legal” thinking. 0.962
12. I always clearly separate cause from effect; I am a master at analyzing cause-and-effect relationships and the primary and secondary in a sequence of events. 0.956
13. I have a strictly scientific worldview, alien to any magic or religion. 0.955
14. I instantly see the regular structural connection between facts and events that at first glance are disparate, where others see no connection between them. 0.950
15. I would be well suited to being a detective or investigator - I know how to collect and accumulate the smallest facts and, without haste, draw general conclusions from them. 0.868
16. I quickly perform arithmetic operations on any whole numbers in my head (I suppose my brain is fairly well trained for this, and the process itself is familiar and gives me some pleasure). 0.865

17. Under time pressure I quickly lose the ability to analyze my surroundings logically. -0.535
18. After solving any mathematical problems, I would always later doubt whether I had solved them correctly. -0.674
19. I have always been indifferent to mathematics. -0.756
20. I am easily swayed by other people’s logical arguments and reasoning; I easily come under the influence of such reasoning. -0.801
21. It is easy for me to become confused about some issue. -0.809
22. Physics, mathematics, technology, and chemistry are not fields in which I would like to work. -0.812
23. Economizing and sober calculation in business or everyday affairs are very difficult for me. -0.829
24. It is difficult for me to read and understand geographical and topographic maps. -0.867
25. At school I always had problems with arithmetic, including arithmetic operations on numbers - numbers never interested me. -0.945
26. I have a peculiar “arithmetic blindness” - perceiving numbers and operating with them is probably more difficult for me than for many others. -1.027
27. I admit that I sometimes lack logic in my reasoning. -1.166
28. I quickly tire of any activities involving a lot of calculation. -1.170

ETHICS

1. I am a master at detecting another person’s “emotional vibrations.” 1.300
2. I am characterized more by emotionality than by cold rationality. 1.278
3. I am highly susceptible to the influence of emotions and feelings. 1.271
4. From another person’s face I instantly see when something disgusts or displeases them. 1.195
5. I am sensitive to other people’s states and know how to smooth over sharp edges in communication. 1.180
6. I am a very empathetic person. 1.102
7. I usually see when a person is in a cheerful mood. 1.099
8. When solving a task jointly with other people, I orient myself toward the other person’s perception rather than toward the task itself - it is very important for me to know what my partner feels, what they think of me, and whether they love me. 0.992
9. I am very observant of people’s ethical behavior and always pay attention to unseemly acts among my acquaintances and friends. 0.953
10. My life is always emotionally colored and filled with dreams, expectations, and fears; every person and every event has its own special flavor and significance for me. 0.939
11. Every person and every event has its own emotional flavor and significance for me. 0.938
12. I can easily evoke vivid emotional memories in myself. 0.923
13. I am better than others at calming another person and relieving their emotional tension. 0.913
14. A set of concepts that characterizes me quite accurately and fully: feelings, agreement, peace, humanity, commandments, conscientiousness, shame, politeness, reliability, the human soul, forgiveness, poetry, fate. 0.908

15. I am “thick-skinned”; all sorts of small details and nuances do not get through to me well. -0.797
16. There is probably more indifference and imperturbable disregard in my character than in other people’s. -0.812
17. I am a cold-blooded person and rarely become attached to anyone. -0.816
18. I am free of excessive sentimentality. -0.842
19. More readily than others, I could be called a person with a motionless, stony face, because in general I am not very emotional. -0.846
20. It is difficult for me to express my feelings. -0.850
21. I do not like empathizing with others - let them worry about themselves. -0.865
22. It is true that I do not know how to express and explain feelings in words. -0.869
23. I do not have time for other people’s problems. -0.889
24. It is difficult for me to feel anything toward people; more often I feel indifference. -0.935
25. Emotions do not affect me deeply. -0.986
26. I am capable of solving problems without becoming emotionally involved in them. -1.007
27. Most often I am indifferent to the feelings of others. -1.205