Werl... a friend likes to test his girlfriends. One of them took the test three times, different result each time, none of them ISFJ, which is what I believe she fits.
But anyway by "strongly functional" I meant something like "actually works, delivers the goods".
I own to being a believer. I like function orders that pair an e with an i. I like the idea that using one kind of function will preclude easy simultaneous use of some others--like for example someone trying to say they use Ti and Fi at the same time doesn't seem right. I'm content too with the idea that the lower in the function order, the more mentally costly it is to maintain conscious use. (Like I know from experience that I can go on Se trips, appreciating flowers and trees and perspective and roads and wind and sweating, but I also know that I space out after not too long and start thinking of other things, and I can come back to the Se moment if I put some effort in, but... and so on.) I also take it for granted that somehow or other it just does happen that there are 4 chosen ones and 4 shadows. Just using myself as the one easy access subject I have, the theory does seem to work, so I believe.
The thing that bugs me however is, I guess, the lack of really personal expressive depth. The archetypes work for me so I grant them the status of working for everyone else too (just to make it easier to like the theory), but I guess the fact is, they don't really work, not really. They, and MBTI, go only so far into expressing what it is to have an identity. There's a frustrating drop off in expressive power for this model, perhaps right at the most interesting point. (Or at least it's the interesting point once one has gone some way into the model and started wanting more.)
So for example, I'd guess there'll be some IRL correlation between being NT and being intelligent, but it seems like MBTI really doesn't have the juice to genuinely say why (or why not). Or what, or how. The really interesting parts of the person, as far as MBTI goes, are left up to accidents of birth, environment, and who the hell knows what else.
*pout*
*wants better*