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INTPs think they smart.

Who is most intelligent?

  • the INTP

    Votes: 17 34.7%
  • the INTJ

    Votes: 8 16.3%
  • the INFP

    Votes: 4 8.2%
  • the INFJ

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • the ISFP

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • the ISFJ

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • the ISTJ

    Votes: 2 4.1%
  • the ISTP

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • the ENTP

    Votes: 4 8.2%
  • the ENTJ

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • the ENFP

    Votes: 2 4.1%
  • the ENFJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • the ESTJ Derp

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • the ESTP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • the ESFJ

    Votes: 2 4.1%
  • the ESTJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
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Thus far three idiots took the bait, two smartasses decided to be contrarian, I was the ENTP and somewhere around here there's a lurking ISTJ.
 

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Everything I've read associates INTJs with the highest IQ. I figure at least one person should vote for them.
 

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Everything I've read associates INTJs with the highest IQ. I figure at least one person should vote for them.

Nah, I know an INTJ and I'm smarter than he is.

And that one case is definitely indicative of the entirety of INTJkind.
 

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this is like one of my top favorite polls 2014 top top 10/10

if i have to use my gangstas to assume who was the intelligentest, well I guess INTPs are kinda high up thar. But what do you expect hangin on INTPforum and most of your friends being from therhein

there is also a distinct type that are drawn to this site and who simultaneously identify as INTP

in contrast to like infjforum who all creeps identify as and will drag down the average IQ of

weeeeeee
 

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creative smart N
artistic smart S
people smart F
book smart T

iterate if need be

creative people smart NF
 

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:ahh: my bottom smarts...
 

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Intuitive dominants and introverted sensors (savants) would/could have the highest potential, relying/trying to rely on the mbti theory.
So ENXP 10/10, IXTJ 9/10, IXXP 8.9/10, then it's pretty unimportant but probably really close to each other, with variances more due to genetic abnormality rather than being consistently typed here or there.

Sure, there is no way many people could stand to be demoted, which is fun.
 

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Introverted intuitives as a group. I'm torn between INFP and INTP. Voted for INFP. They probably embody both book and people smarts.
 

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I claim ESFP but it isn't there. There are two ESTJ slots?
 

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I think we should define what smart is first.
 

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In my biased experience, ENTJ, ENFP, ENTP

The ENFPs and ENTPs seem to dominate in the gifted schools. But that is just some aspects of smart. INTPs are interesting, but useless.:p
 

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I think we should assume that what's generally understood to be meant by "smart" is ability to grasp (from a catalog of various) concepts and/or decent proficiency in at least one assigned discipline, with social graces being a supplemental category or perhaps the other half to it. If one, on paper, only excelled in interacting with people someone else would say they weren't smart because they weren't that interested in math. However, one doesn't necessarily need to be adept at sciences in order to be successful (should we define success?), and one's savoir faire could still be apparent in most situations. So all that's really needed is one's own specialty in at least one discipline and it can be seen how they're smart with it... If one were able to exercise everything they would be smart.
 

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In my biased experience, ENTJ, ENFP, ENTP

The ENFPs and ENTPs seem to dominate in the gifted schools. But that is just some aspects of smart. INTPs are interesting, but useless.:p

Yes, INFP's and INTP's are superfluous.
 

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I think we should define what smart is first.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt one's behaviour to achieve a desired outcome.

In other words not how much you know but how fast you learn.
 

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ENTP's are out then since they don't learn anything.
 

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Why was the poll made anonymous? This is now moot. I'm sending an complaint to the High Coincell.
 

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hmm ENTP and INTJ more often give me the "d'oh should've thought of that" vibe than other types. i guess that's an ok measure of the kinds of properties associated with intelligence. although i can't make a strict distinction between intelligence and good really. the more i think about it the more they collapse. like pretty much everything... whatever
 

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I am INFJ. With my Ni -which isn't shackled by the rigid imperative morphology of Te- I have seen the truth: INFJ's are the smartest, they have the most holistic understanding of being.
 

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Doesn't matter how smart you are, if you can't overcome your slothy slothy instincts. I'm so lazy...
 

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NT's are good planners, designers, philosophers.
NF's are good counselors and can have a skillful emotional intelligence.
SJ's, are good at.... making a successful life...idk...
SP's are good at things too. I'm having a hard time generalizing it though.
 

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Stupid Jerks make me feel bad about mhself too.

Yes, there we go.

NF's are great at making people feel good about themselves.

SJ's are incredible at making us N's feel like worthless pieces of crap.
 

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Yes, there we go.

NF's are great at making people feel good about themselves.

SJ's are incredible at making us N's feel like worthless pieces of crap.

"Shame on you for saying something like that! What kind of human being are you???"

^^ like that? :D
 

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"Shame on you for saying something like that! What kind of human being are you???"

^^ like that? :D

Nah, that sounds like an NF when you hurt their feelings.

SJ's are like:

"My daughter has 2 full-time jobs, goes to school, babysits, and cuts grass for people. You aren't hurtin' yourself any. You don't amount to anything in the world. There is something inherently wrong with you. Nobody likes you. You need serious help. The skills that you have are useless and worthless. Don't you think you should be more like 'x'? Don't you think that you could be a little more ....normal?"

"You don't do 'x'. You don't do 'y' or 'z'. There is nothing you do that makes you worthy as a person. Now, I have to tell everyone I know and spread the word, and warn them of how pathetic you are. "

edit: even better - "You can't make it on your own. You won't go far without my help"

*****

Sorry, I'm venting :walkout:
 

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Nah, that sounds like an NF when you hurt their feelings.

SJ's are like:

"My daughter has 2 full-time jobs, goes to school, babysits, and cuts grass for people. You aren't hurtin' yourself any. You don't amount to anything in the world. There is something inherently wrong with you. Nobody likes you. You need serious help. The skills that you have are useless and worthless. Don't you think you should be more like 'x'? Don't you think that you could be a little more ....normal?"

"You don't do 'x'. You don't do 'y' or 'z'. There is nothing you do that makes you worthy as a person. Now, I have to tell everyone I know and spread the word, and warn them of how pathetic you are. "

edit: even better - "You can't make it on your own. You won't go far without my help"

*****

Sorry, I'm venting :walkout:

The counter is to play really really dumb and nice. They'll just like you and feel sorry enough to just do the stuff for you (the tedious things to get you on your way to doing anything). They'll lose telling you all that crap as hopefully they'll think you're too stupid/cannot help yourself. Once that's over you'll be left alone.
 

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NT's are good planners, designers, philosophers.
NF's are good counselors and can have a skillful emotional intelligence.
SJ's, are good at.... making a successful life...idk...
SP's are good at things too. I'm having a hard time generalizing it though.

im listening to star wars music right now so have to add this:

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To be attuned to the force peacefully (in other words without turning to the dark side) you have to maintain calm and keep emotions to a minimum (In my admittedly limited experience this is the least traveled route of the ENFJ) I think it's more the area of the INTJ because of Ni foresight and Te judgement.
 
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Nah, that sounds like an NF when you hurt their feelings.

SJ's are like:

"My daughter has 2 full-time jobs, goes to school, babysits, and cuts grass for people. You aren't hurtin' yourself any. You don't amount to anything in the world. There is something inherently wrong with you. Nobody likes you. You need serious help. The skills that you have are useless and worthless. Don't you think you should be more like 'x'? Don't you think that you could be a little more ....normal?"

"You don't do 'x'. You don't do 'y' or 'z'. There is nothing you do that makes you worthy as a person. Now, I have to tell everyone I know and spread the word, and warn them of how pathetic you are. "

edit: even better - "You can't make it on your own. You won't go far without my help"

*****

Sorry, I'm venting :walkout:

Good synopsis of the SJ mind.

F*&^ all SJs. Can't stand them.
 
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The counter is to play really really dumb and nice. They'll just like you and feel sorry enough to just do the stuff for you (the tedious things to get you on your way to doing anything). They'll lose telling you all that crap as hopefully they'll think you're too stupid/cannot help yourself. Once that's over you'll be left alone.

I'm going to start a thread on "How to Deal with SJs" and use your quote here as the catalyst. I'd like to know how to implement psychological ju jitsu on them. I view them as the enemy of civilization (at least when they get too much power. If they are maintaining roads, putting bricks and mortar together in order to maintain roofs over the NTs' heads, food production for supply to cities, keeping the prisons well run then perhaps they are useful).
 

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What should be asked is which type has the greatest potential for intelligence? The answer: INFJ ofc
 

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What should be asked is which type has the greatest potential for intelligence? The answer: INFJ ofc

Wait, I thought it was the INTPs who were always told, "OH U HAV SO MUCH POTENSHUL"!!!
 

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Wait, I thought it was the INTPs who were always told, "OH U HAV SO MUCH POTENSHUL"!!!

yeah INxJ are try-hards operating constantly at maximum capacity.

INTP's can do anything. but things are stupid.
 

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INTP's can do anything. but things are stupid.

gawd, that's such a t-shirt / bumper sticker.

INTPs: We can do anything
...but things are stupid, so we don't.
 

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I was under the impression that ENFP have the highest IQ on average, so, I voted ENFP. But now that I have gone to find the studies I thought I saw years ago, I can't find them. In fact, I can't seem to find decent studies to support any type. Just a lot of conjecture, anecdotes, and poor/self-report studies pointing to INTP and INTJ.
 

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Some people can have me profusely face-palming. It's as though they would readily jump off a cliff, and squeal with delight the whole way down, not even worrying about the fate that awaits, until that time came.

That being figurative of course, but some people frequently take a very costly gamble for an unlikely, and worthless prize. And I'm quick to point out that they are 'stupid'.

Yet, I find myself envious at the same time, at how evasive they are of the likely consequences. It seems it isn't a conscious effort; it almost had me believed something metaphysical has taken to them.

Putting aside our conception of 'intelligence'; when assuming the definition of 'ability', these people definitely have possession of something that I seriously lack. Optimism, and an extreme focus on the present moment, a wealthy life of rich experience and connections, luck, confidence and bravery.
 

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