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You should remember @TreasureTower that when @Teybo says what he does, he's not necessarily talking of a T-dominant. He's in general speaking of the dichotomies.
The description of the INTP as unlively etc is probably assuming the T-dominance POV.

You probably fit a good portion of both the F and the T end of the dichotomies based on your descriptions, so that's what's going on here. Aka, "moderate" on the F-T dimension.
 

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I think the biggest issue is people with marginal preferences on the dichotomies look very little like what you'd expect the doms/infs to look. Like, why would someone who is INFP with P strong and F-T preference slim, and N-preference HIGH, and high introversion look like a Fi-dom rather than Ni-dom? Likely not.

Assuming roughly balanced but clear preferences I could see a case for INFP with P measuring mostly outward orientation being observably more Ne-like (their observable outlook rather than their inner, possibly secretly held, identity of Fi, would possibly be perceptive, seemingly receptive to new perspectives outside, more to compensate for their lack of interest in objective judgment).
 

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@TreasureTower: regarding the below; there are clear differences between these types so try to see if any of those rings a bell! Like, for instance you went on about how ENTP could solve the problem. Do you think if you had to say, where do you feel most at home -- intuition? feeling? thinking? If you are generally an intuitive, I'd say don't worry about the little nitpicks and go ahead and pick ENTP or INFJ. I don't think it holds true that a best-fit introverted intuitive cannot Ne, only that with clear extreme levels of introversion they will reject Ne. Ditto for best fit ENTP and Ni.

And let's dispense with the stereotype that Ne-doms always are just all over the place. Yeah they may have a lot of interests but at the end of the day they're just cognitive extroverts, more energized by objectivity than subjectivity. The additional claim that they are unfocused is kind of extraneous. Ni can be equally unfocused in the sense I think is actually intellectually sound. It's intuition! It's powerful, conceptual, but it just goes and goes and goes without any clear destination necessarily. You just won't see Ni-doms' nature as much in this light because they are introverts.

The problem with MBTI and JCF, is that I think I fit both types - INTP and INFJ, really well.
 

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@TreasureTower: no, more like IN-X-P by dichotomies. Your cognitive function profile is a different story. Those descriptions seem clearly to allude to cognitive functions, like speaking of INFJs' premonitions, etc.

By cognitive functions --
I'd look into ISTP for good measure if you think you seem Se-Ni but don't think INFJ fits. Don't look at the descriptions though -- you don't need to ride motorcycles or be in love with nature to use Se well (I mean, uhm, do people forget introversion as the dominant perspective changes one's need for and outlook on Se, Ni as compared to if one of these were dominant...). It's just a data-gathering scheme.

Figure out if you're an intuitive though. Intuitives are their own funny breed. Don't worry about introversion/extroversion for now perhaps.
 

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@TwitchdelaBRAT - for food for thought, interestingly though, if one wanted to code the 4 letter dichotomies to really reflect the cognitive functions more closely, I think being a best-fit Ni-dom with Ti-Fe might in fact fit INTP. The P v. J being Pe v. Je is a bit sticky and not quite true in my experience -- it doesn't always hold true that I'd type a person with IJ orientation as a perceiving dominant (I could see them actually seeming judging dominant best-fit), and part of the reason for all this is type is best-fit, not pure, and there's too much rigidity around how one translates the four letters to the cognitive functions (so I pretty much do the cognitive functions version of things separately, i.e. Ni-dom with Fe-Ti over Te-Fi is basically what I call a cognitive INFJ type). Perceiving dominance with a lesser preference for rational functions could actually lead to someone answering things very P-like on those tests.

So I mean, it might actually be that you are an INTP in the dichotomies and an "INFJ" as a best-fit cognitive type (i.e. maybe you are Ni-dom with Ti-Fe basically equally distributed, with a skewing to T in the dichotomy questions).

Also, keys2cognition is sort of a ridiculous place to test for Fe. It doesn't have terrible questions, but their Fe questions are way too group-harmony/caretaking oriented, which I honestly think can be a feature of even an inferior Fe and how much one indulges those things can relate far too much to people-orientation than legitimate F cognitive focus.
 
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