Why are some Reinin dichotomies fairly weak and prone to inversion - in other words, why is your average IEE a positivist, your average LII is prone to ethical-emotional rigidity (aka "constructivism"), etc?
The short answer is that there aren’t 15 truly independent dimensions of human personality, mentality, or temperament. Even among the four main dichotomies, we see correlations: irrationality tends to cluster with intuition, ethics, and extraversion (often inverting EIE's to slight irrationality and making them ENFP in simple dichotomic-style MBTI). In socionics, certain traits are more "powerful" than others - they play a larger role in shaping a person’s mentality and are less dependent on situational context or other traits. When a weaker trait contradicts a cluster of stronger ones, it often becomes blurred or, more rarely, inverted for the average representative of a type.
Conversely, weaker traits can also reinforce one another. For example, introversion, questimity (sense of separation from the world), negativism, and constructivism can combine to produce a lasting sense of dissatisfaction with the world. In such cases, it's not that any single weak trait dominates, but rather that their mutual reinforcement creates a stable tendency.
And although Socionics made many significant changes to Jung's original descriptions (in particular, Augusta ended up concurring with Myers in transferring most of the abstract-concrete dimension to Intuition-Sensing, rather than Introversion-Extraversion), to the point the systems are quite different, it's still worth noting that to Jung, an introvert was at least strongly correlated with socionics intuition, questimity and constructivism, at least as the socionist Talanov, whose school I mostly follow, describes them.
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