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Originally Posted by Eric B
There's an updated version of MBTI called the Type Differentiation Indicator which adds a Comfort-Discomfort scale, which roughly corresponds to Neuroticism. Also, Step II, or the Expanded Analysis Report (MBTI Step II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) breaks the original four scales down into subscales. So in Extraversion/Introversion, you can be Initiating-Receiving, Expressive-Contained, Gregarious-Intimate, Active-Reflective, Enthusiastic-Quiet. Some of these would cover what we would call "shyness".
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Occasionally, these necessarily secondhand references to original-source, Jung-derived systems bother me. Here we are, discussing MBTI on an eponymous forum, and due to testing costs beyond those of casual purchases, very few of us have taken anything other than online knockoffs. Imagine talking stemware on CHAMPAGNECentral when all anybody's ever drunk is sparkling grape juice.
As for the discussion, system-triangulation may help. Yet I continue to wonder if extraversion and introversion must be thought of as corollary and not determinant -- as, say, dimorphism is a manifestation of chromosomal arrangement, "E" and "I" are figurations of temperamental characteristics that are highly dependent on irreducible types. So preferences
do run along a continuum but
aren't, were you to try to deduce, terms distributed across the category.