I'm starting to think that maybe one of the reasons some of us score so close together on the feeling/thinking dichotomy is maybe because Ni and/or Ne is capable of allowing a person to be empathetic in the sense that it allows you to imagine more easily being in another's shoes. Also, I think that function might cause you to assess how someone is going to react to something and try to take the best course of action based on that assessment. Such imagining could possibly mimic feeling as well and make it difficult to answer questions about feeling/thinking on tests.