old school personality map

[BudBundi]

Taken from Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Duffy had suggested calling these two classes of individuals labiles and stabiles, and this classification, while not as famous as extraversion and introversion, was just as solidly backed by empirical evidence, and just as useful in understanding varieties of temperament.

Now, neither system of classification told the investigator all that much about the total nature of the personality being studied. The terms were so general, they were collections of so many traits, that they said very little in any useful diagnostic sense, especially since both were Gaussian curves in the actual population.

But combine the two systems, and it began to get very interesting indeed.

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But then he began moving the four terms around the initial points of a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry, which proposed that no simple dialectic was enough to indicate the true complexity of any cluster of related concepts

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And Michel had stared at this schema, with extraversion, introversion, lability and stability at the first four corners, and considered their combinations; and then everything had suddenly fallen into focus, as if a kaleidoscope had suddenly clicked by accident into a depiction of a rose. For it made perfect sense: there were extraverts who were excitable, and extraverts who were on an even keel; there were introverts who were quite emotional, and those who were not.

Does anyone else find this concept interesting?

 

[Crazy Asian]

i have no idea what that is saying.
i suck at reading and vocab

 

[OTB]

i have no idea what that is saying.
i suck at reading and vocab

But aren't "Crazy Asians" supposed to be mad good at school?

 

[search1ng]

no, only the ones that have been subject to hours upon hours of study in the background. Know all the smart asians at school? Most of them receive extra tutoring and go to all kinds of extra private academies. Just so they can excel at school.

edit: also, i might read that book. Maybe, the general gist of that short segment you took out says some person combined 2 systems; the concept of the labiles and stabiles and modern day extro/introvert and found a better way to class people.

Didn't we already know that we couldn't realistically class any one person as either an introvert or an extrovert? two more added terms might help but it's not going to solve humans any time soon. If ever.