Simplexity
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I'll answer that question in a moment -- once we establish this:
What is the use of a correlation in a typology?
Perhaps I'm off my mark, but it was always my assumption that the aim of a typology is to enhance individual insight. The first two functions allow for us to reach that, because they're present enough to have a very strong bearing on behavior and personality.
Tertiary and Inferior on the other hand -- the rare birds; the ones happening along as the Primaries see fit -- don't make a legitimate impact on the insight, and studying a correlation (better named a confirmed bias, as you so aptly did) would inevitably encroach on observation: the very foundation of knowledge seeking.
Yes that is what I was trying to get at. I think ultimately working on your dominant and auxillary is your best bet. Those tertiary and inferior are too subtle to ultimately notice when you look at the totality of a person.
If you're arguing about the validity of using them or possibly even referencing them I can agree. Dissonance explained better about the correlation if you were to take the analysis to that extent. I honestly think, though, that I've worked on them moderately enough to the point where I don't feel extremely awkward using them. Does it define me at all, no, but you will see subtle undertones.
On the other end if you were to type based solely on those last two functions I think it would be somewhat disingenuous because they really don't give you an accurate portrayal of who a person is. At the same time depending on who you are you may have different functions in that slot that serve to color your personality