Ordered functions are our priority side of information assimilation: we strive to ensure that the experience we gain is organized and does not contradict the previous worldview. In contrast, Cluttered functions do not strive to eliminate contradictions and prefer to assimilate new experiences chaotically. As a result, ordered thinking is responsible for normative representations of the world (they give our worldview a point of reference), while cluttered ones provide more diverse experience – it extracts it from different sources in the hope that it may come in handy in some situation.
It is important to understand that ordered/cluttered are deep properties of our thinking, so their manifestations are extremely difficult to trace in ourselves, let alone to determine with the help of leading questions. Thus, when determining a type, it is necessary to look not at the properties separately, but at the signs formed by them.
The ordered functions include Leading (1), Role (3), Mobilizing (6) and Demonstrative (8) functions. The cluttered functions include Creative (2), Vulnerable (4), Suggestive (5) and Ignoring (7) functions. These function properties are the basis for dividing types into the pair of traits Introverted/Extraverted:
Introverted are types with ordered introverted and cluttered extraverted aspects, while Extraverted are types with ordered extraverted and cluttered introverted aspects.