These are the people who breezed through exams at school because they "test well" or who can rattle off every state capital on a whimthey'd likely be your "Phone-a-Friend" on an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. At this point it is much harder to present an argument as to why one would be smarter than the other. The ability to see what other normal humans dont, the ability to think what other people dont, and yet it works way better than other ideas. But why? 99% of what humans do based on logic fails. I would just like to say that I am an INTJ and my Ni function allows INTJs and INFJs to see the perspective and motives of others better than any other, thus allowing us to extrapolate those perspectives and make the most open- minded decisions. I think that there is a space for political correctness in certain forms. I'm also basically useless. However, you are right. -INTP. NTs tend to use their critical thinking for deductive and inductive reasoning. I'm an INFP, so I don't want you to think I'm conceited when I say N's steal the field in theoretical intelligence, which is great for big picture thinking, but S's have an advantage in here-and-now pragmatism. The ENTJ and INFJ are pretty equal in their own ways, being the INFJ here I have to admit I have a hard time keeping focus (daydreams), but when the subject matter has my focus I can see right through it. (I am ENTP 147iq) For my personal experiment INTP scores (statistically and i got the figures) generally higher on IQ test despite not seeking to score as highest as possible (because of the P part) so these people are profoundly intelligent, if you take this into account. In the end, the instructor showed us the actual grouping; the two were an exact tie. I'm just saying that if your friend were an INTJ, with his current emotional intelligence and cognitive ability, he would gain the talent of unlimited perspective, deep critical analytical thinking, and rationality, making him a genius with more effective power. And for the record on the NEO-PI-R Big Five test, I also score very high in openness, again demonstrating how the correlation is far from perfect. Why don't I go outside of personality and start talking spirituality? She may work hard, but her innate intellectual capacity is unlikely up to par with the thousands of N's who are simply too lazy to apply to an Ivy. A certain type of intelligence that you may actually be really good at because this isn't concrete, it all depends on perspective and who you really are. What surprised me the most about this article is how P's were given a step up to J's. All I'm saying is don't dump your date because you find out they're ESFJ/ESFP, though if you do that's your life I guess. The NT may be ridiculed for reading, love of debate, and abstract thinking which would have him use his other functions like sensing and feeling to fit in more to the point that there are only faint traces of the NT traits. The absolute best you can then say is that maybe being an N type means you are slightly more likely to be marginally smarter than an S type on average. How would you rank it? I really enjoy reading it. The latter of which I've failed to provide, ironically enough. I think IQ is a measure of some cognitive "divergence", but intelligence seem to be nothing more than what people actually perceive and decide to define as intelligence. ISTPs are observant of detail and have a love of troubleshooting problems. But overall, I really appreciate your articles and the way you teach this stuff. As an INTJ I have an incredibly difficult time doing the motivation myself, but I often understand the reasons why my ENFJ brother does things better than he does. Which MBTI is the smartest? (another INTP who is definitely trying not to get carried away by being ranked 1st mwahahaha-- ahem ahem.). All types are special in one way or another cheers! Which, granted, is correlated to MBTI N, but the correlation is far from perfect and there is a moderate correlation to P as well. We apply, tweak and execute these concepts in the real world and over the general masses. Don't forget Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. LOL -I'm an INTJ but i dont care that much. T's are generally more mechanical and technical. I would argue that N types are smarter than S types, because N types are better at picking up patterns, conceptualizing and planning. Because, although an INTP may be much smarter than the other types, they generally lack social skills, as do the other NT types, as a general rule. I'm not here to claim that the average INTp is smarter than the average INTj, or otherwise. An ESFJ is the second most common Myers-Briggs personality combination, comprising 12% of the general population, 17% of women, and 8% of men. no way in hell. The same as Enf can be on par with Int. Why don't we talk left brain vs right brain? May tend to play dumb to get what they want from people, and are able to succeed doing so with the majority of other types (Jarring maybe ENPs/INJs) Intelligence is objective. Also there are types that are perhaps better at logic than others. ESTJ- This type I would say, is the smartest of all the sensors. I think intelligence is just a tool for learning knowledge. >"control" Intelligence is a virtue, but no matter how hard you might study, some just have an edge over others. They're just more likely to be intelligent in certain types of intelligence. Most lists I've seen have been very similar to yours, even to the point of giving a P a slight edge, but I don't know. I think I can at least discover whether these functions can be manipulated through successful persuasion in the form of hypnotherapy. Ignorance is bliss I suppose! Virginity and the amount of partners seem to distinguish intjs from intps. Very happy to find my family's various four personality types at the tip-top of the list. I think I'll have another dorito..Yep! Many of the E leaders that we see were put in place by I's. Other than that, the conceptualisation of the subject is great. To one person it may be creativity. According to the MBTI, maybe not. 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Surprisingly, most ENTJs score pretty high on this as well, so I think any intuitive extrovert who does not struggle with autism would probably score somewhere between average and high on EQ. The concept of "political correctness" is a fundamentally flawed concept as it is reliant on the general ideas that the opinions of white heterosexual cisgender abled men are normal and all other people's views are "political". F's are generally more involved with less mechanical things and more involved with personal things and emotional things. On the other hand, people who you described as more practical, are just realistic and not as imaginative, so are probably lower on the N. The extroverts always lead because they can connect with their fellow humans. They also handle numbers easily. Intp seem to be more "spiritual". It's a general rule, not an absolute, and there's enough variance to conclude you're probably not smarter than every single person of any other type. Virginity and tool making makes intj smarter. PPS - Also interesting that, in my very unscientific survey of the number of these kinds of posts out there, Ns overwhelmingly seem to want to prove this issue more than any other type. Why don't we talk lots of other things that would also lead to greater understanding? So if you're the smartest personality type, don't get your ego up because you may be smart in one way, but not another. (Correlation does not imply causation). These personalities are brilliant and highly motivated enjoying hard work. You're not saying what exactly is wrong. If it's not about letters then why have letters? Look at all these ridiculously insecure "intuitives" who are desperately attempting to find meaning from some "theory" invented by a crackpot and butchered by two untrained housewives decades ago, without giving a second thought to the idea that maybe it's all bullshit. They have no time for analysing and often dont know what to say, but they understand human beings and humility which puts them higher than the ESFP. (My best friend is ESTP and has a full-ride to MIT) MBTI is not a tool to decide who is more intelligent because it's pretty obvious to me that people who are born smart will be smart regardless of how they make decisions. Rationality however, is BOTH contained in intuiting/sensing feeling/thinking processes. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. They're also among one of the rarest Myers-Briggs types, making up just 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, according to data from Ball State University. Existential intelligence involves puzzling over abstract ideas, such as the meaning of life. People who are introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging, are more likely to have that "stereotypical" intelligence, Isabelle Robledo, personality expertand co-founder of Making Mindfulness Fun, tellsBest Life. It would be rather interesting for you to write the same article and explain how each order of the cognitive functions contribute most to influence because you would really be going out on a limb even more. "The I's don't get their energy from the E's" THIS IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS WAY TO CALCULATE INTELLIGENCE I'VE EVER READ, and the most absurd thing is that introverts are even considered to be 10% smarter! Smart and refuses to give up until he proves it to himself and the world :). It's how we interpret the information that comes into our minds. Which is why we need to broaden our definition of intelligence as more than just a technical measurement. They are highly detail oriented and have a propensity for troubleshooting. PPPS - That goes double for Mensa members. They've been forced to shutter over safety hazards. So I didn't just only use MBTI to be like, oh look, he's why some people are intelligent. Why don't I include the Enneagram? Daten ber Ihr Gert und Ihre Internetverbindung, wie Ihre IP-Adresse, Browsing- und Suchaktivitten bei der Nutzung von Yahoo Websites und -Apps. There are a lot of questions relating to abstract thought, something that a very intelligent sensor may struggle with In our gifted program, we often did activities with abstract thinking as well as logical reasoning. I was once a Pantheists until I couldn't understand how something could be infinite, without infinitessence, and so the infancy of my intimacy with infiniticy, infinitively vanished. I have an INFJ friend who by this guide should be smarter than I. I even heard how sensors would pretend to be intuitives in the MBTI Community for some reason. Many of the influential E leaders that we see had influential I philosophers in the background working behind them. F turn to T and N turn to S is much easlier than reverse. MTBI stands for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It seems as though they value their intuition more than their thinking preference, and us intj's seem to prefer our thinking more. 11 Reasons Why And How To Handle It. Now to your analysis: Being smart isn't about being a thinker or being a feeler. Well, I don't know what you decided to define as "dumb" or "intelligent", but if you refer to IQ, I'm INFJ and my IQ is 148. Great in a crisis, they use their intuitive skills to pivot and adapt. Sie knnen Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ndern. Not everyone wants influence, but most people want contentment. YOU WONT FIND IT ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET! ENFP Surely? Feeling however is regarded frequently to having close ties to emotion due to cultural bias (although I agree, irrational physiological processes tend to gather around more subjective processes, such as evaluation of ethics). So what is actually going on? >carry out what intps think This comes down to the task at hand. I do remember that the school district changed over to a different test within several months by the time my younger sibling was tested. Very, very few of my friends in school were ESFJs. Bob Pinciotti: Naturalist. Well I think we should first look at this from an accuracy standpoint. When it comes to actual thinking, I can match (and usually far surpass) the I sitting in the corner reading. (Im ENTJ.) INFP- They are like INFPs, they can store a tremendous amount of information and not forget it. Huge. It was a paradox; and thus my religion was conceived: Paradoxitheism. However, stating this the opinion that comes to mind is the simple fact that if a person is raised in a meritocratic environment ("if you work hard, get into a good university, get a good job you'll do well and advance in society" (let's ignore the fault in logic for a moment)), they are more likely to dismiss the idea that there are intelligent and non-intelligent people. Extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging types are also among the most intelligent,Joseph Puglisi, CEO of Dating Iconic, explains. My close INTP friend while incredibly intelligent and can remember details in a phenomenal way that I usually can't, can many times not realize how sometimes people can react badly to things she does and turns to me for advice. Maybe it's just best not to force an either/or choice on that one. NJ on causality. Most SJs are usually only being "educated" without really being logical or intellectual at all. Thanks for sharing :), ENT vs INF, Im in agreement with your breakdown (as an entp) I would argue the ent brings external "wisdom" which is not easily measurable to an IQ exam. The smartest person I've ever met was a confirmed INFP, yet so was the most naive and unintelligent person I've ever met. The INTJ seems to have a really hard time admitting that though. 1.They are not interested to really use their intelligence to begin with. And be proud with your type! Intelligence has nothing to do with independence, you can only say that the extroverts get their energy from the outside, which does not even represent a dependence (moreover), because we live in a human society, not on the moon, the world is full of people from whom extroverts can get energy. So if you try to think about who actually is most likely to getting the maximum satisfaction from life, the entire order you proposed changes. You have to be an N yourself. We first need to define what we mean by smart. The true pattern-recognition based test gave me 95. But IQ is just one way to measure intelligence. No matter what type you are, you have a unique intelligence that you express through your interests, career, and relationships. This again gives ENFP a higher amount of geniuses due to sheer population. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. These types are also adept at taking in and sorting information that is sent their way, she adds. Those aren't the main problems, though. In addition you're using MBTI when the MBTI does no actual research on the Jungain personality types unlike these people http://cognitivetype.com . On that end it really seems to me that extroverts should hold a little more weight. http://advan.physiology.org/content/262/6/S1.full.pdf. There are tons of influential P's and tons of influential J's. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by the superiority complex some INT's feel when some website tells them their personality type is smart. They're wrong because you don't take into consideration all the factors you need to draw the conclusion that you have. I do not think I/E has anything to do with a person's intellect. One of the rarest personality types, these individuals are incredibly adept at organizing. Everyone uses their senses. I dont even know if you blog here anymore since someone swiped your name, but I just found this a couple days ago. Many people have seen the following chart, which seems to suggest the opposite: Also, having grown up being part of the Advanced, Honors and Gifted Program in the American Public Schools, I have noticed a peculiar phenomenon among many of the friends I have kept touch with over the years. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); The INTx types are most often listed as the smartest. And I forgive you for having answered so late. See, e.g., http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html. Each person is said to have one dominant quality supported by the remaining subordinate categories, producing 16 unique personality types that are relatively accurate in explaining a persons approach to daily activities. Go on, explain to me why that "theory" is accurate, what you have to support it, why it makes any sense at all or how it is anything less than totally arbitrary. They do follow things alot but they also do know when there is no value or sense in something thats happening. 4. And hey, maybe you are a genius (in one way.) Further, there are actually lots of non-human animals with extraordinary logical reasoning capabilities. The I's are more independent than the E's. But what I've came across within the MBTI Community is often types don't like being stereotyped or even in in comparison. ISTP The information that Ive seen seems to link the design of IQ tests with traits more common in intuitives, specifically those with dominant extraverted intuition (as opposed to the introverted intuition used by INTJs). But there is practically no correlation nowadays between intelligence andsuccess. But for the purposes of this article we are going to measure smart as the influence one has over others and society. These individuals are self-disciplined, energized by time alone (Introverted), focus on ideas rather than details, and prefer planning to spontaneity. However I believe the N in people not so smart leads them to believe in paranormal activity, psychics their "ability to grasp theories" make them more gullible than their equivalent S that tend to be practical and not as easily fooled. Verywell / JR Bee. Im never biased. The reason I put them higher than INFPs is because they can completely cancel out emotion which can quite often be time wasting, debilitating and can even cloud judgement. The Top 8 Smartest Personality Types #1 Smartest Personality Type-INTJ #2 Smartest Personality Type-INTP #3 Smartest Personality Type-ENFJ #4 Smartest Personality Type-ESTJ #5 Smartest Personality Type-ENTJ #6 Smartest Personality Type-INFJ #7 Smartest Personality Type-ISTP #8 Smartest Personality Type-ENFP I guess I'm kinda smart. So we are like mirrors. Interesting. And that doesn't make it objective nor fair to other personality types. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. How do I know she's an ESFP and not an ENFP? Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I am not saying that emotion is not valuable and doesn't have its place. Anyone who pushes past this and continues to ask long into adulthood is rare because it takes a certain character to do this. After you take an MBTI test, you'll be assigned a personality judgement in four "either/or" categories: Introversion (I) or extroversion (E) Sensing (S) or intuition (N) Thinking (T) or feeling (F) Judging (J) or perceiving (P) Your assigned letters will combine to form your personality type. You're a fucking idiot and this very blog entry proves that you are one. Because this article seems biaised. But I guess I'll give it to you because it's evidently all you have in life. In my case, my INFJ is a more mature version of my INTJ. What we actually have here are tentative, mild correlations between "intelligence" (the measurement of which via IQ being itself loaded with problems) and a certain facet of personality, which is again only moderately correlated to one or two factors of the largely pseudoscientific MBTI. But does a high IQ equate to success and even happiness? 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