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Originally Posted by Expat
It's common to see your creative function, not your dominant one, as your greatest talent -- you sort of take your dominant function for granted; it's "what any normal person does".
Yes, that is a plausible explanation for the phenomenon that so many people tend to mistype themselves. It could, for example, explain why many INTps identify with Ti descriptions in MBTT. Maybe it could also explain why Jung mistyped himself as an introverted thinking type (given the assumption that he really
did mistype himself, which I doubt). But what are the consequences? How many people are mistyped? If that phenomenon is very common, it becomes almost impossible to know for sure that you have typed yourself correctly from reading and identifying with functions descriptions. To read about Model A would be totally insufficient in that case, and overall type descriptions who focus on people's
behaviours would be a more accurate typing tool.