ptgatsby
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Thank you.
I don't understand the tact thing.
I thought that was an F or T indicator: Ts tend to be blunt, Fs tend to be diplomatic.
Is that not true?
It's slightly false...
Fs are about empathy and compassion on one end, but accepting and tender on the other. Inbetween you have accommodating, which is what you likely mean by diplomatic.
However, this is seperate from the tact portion, which is about how one expresses oneself to the world (rather than accommodates other's preferences). There is a conceptual overlap, but are quite seperate in practise.
That is to say that an ExFx will attempt to be tactful and accommodate your request, while an IxTx will not care to accomodate you and not care what they say to you about it. Inbetween you have the ExTx, who might be selective with their words but won't accommodate your request, or the IxFx that might tell you exactly what they think while they accommodate you anyway.
(Above are loose examples, just to help think about the different scope of each trait... I don't have the actual sub-trait breakdown questions, so I can't give a real example.)