I absolutely agree with the latter portion that we may misunderstand the question(s) being asked or infer it to have a different connotation. However as for your former statement, I think it's safe to say that even if you are taking a test that merely results in dichotomy selections, you should still result in your dominant function (ie introversion/thinking=Ti). Furthermore if you consistently test the same way then it's safe to say that you are most likely that function.
Take a lesson boys and girls:
This is the kind of thinking that necessitates the gargantuan post I'm still working on.
If the testing is initially wrong, then consistency means it's consistently wrong.
An ITS ought to know that...
I agree that testing
should result in the correct function, I can say with a great amount of confidence (being a victim myself) that it doesn't happen empirically.
I was originally tested as ISTP. I am not an ISTP.
The point dissonance was making was that if the questions are written in a way that the user
thinks they understand, they will answer it, and (ideally) accurately so, to their understanding. However, if their assumption of the intended meaning differs from the actual intended meaning of only a single word, the question, given the boolean logic of the tests, will misrepresent the person. I emphasize the factor of idyllic violation, because people do and consistently observe themselves incorrectly.
Especially E__Ps, who, often without even knowing it, will lie or just make things up, even believing these things themselves.
Aside from that that, I find a great many people would rather have
an answer, than
the right answer, which almost invariably discourages further investigation. Apply this principle to introspection, and you'll have, with certainty, a lot of people who, even providing they
do understand the question, will still not be able to answer accurately, because they have bad information.
After that, it may be a free-for-all even with the auxiliary function. When I hear people say that they're introverts but score higher on their auxiliary, I am always perplexed. If you're scoring higher on any extraverted function then you are most likely an extravert.
Ha!
So an INTJ who has 25% Si, 35% and 40% Te ought to be an ENTJ then?