8. They have the same intelligence and thinking ability, but where they go with it, what they do, are different. Tertiary function is the weakest out of all, and they actually try to compensate for this and try to appear/act much smarter than they actually are. I even heard how sensors would pretend to be intuitives in the MBTI Community for some reason. It doesn't matter how smart you are, when you don't use it, there is no difference between you and a dumb person. Our society needs Commanders, Nurturers, Protectors, and Providers to be healthy and thrive. I am of the opinion that INTJs and INTPs are roughly equal when it comes to intelligence. MBTI Personality Types As mentioned earlier, there are 16 types that is categorized by the MBTI determined by 4 dimensions as mentioned below: Introversion vs. Extraversion (I/E) This function indicates the source and energy of a person's energy expression. " The I's are more independent than the E's". What does it means? Just go home. "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! ENTJ or extroverts, sensors, thinkers, and judgers tend to be the most financially successful personality types measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. For anyone confused by the graph, the researchers took 2 groups of people (a group of Gifted students and and a group of Normal students) and divided them by MBTI personality type. it's not about the letters. - INFP/ENFP: Most emotionally intelligent (Quickest to understand the true motives behind peoples actions) READ THIS NEXT: The 7 Kindest Myers-Briggs Personality Types, Experts Say. - ESTP/ISTP: Most Skills Smart (Tend to be naturally very good at a lot of things, and are usually the best at hands on making/fixing things) INTJ's aren't AS smart, but get things done. And don't let yourself be governed by it. ISFJ- The second to bottom, I put them higher than the ESFP because they know what to do in certain situations, they are sensible like the ISTJs but they know how to heal a person to health, in everyway. Was I unnecessarily feeling inferior for being a sensor? ENTP: Loss of respect for mankind in favor of the superiority of machines and technology. 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. Te types are also very rational but that dosnt always mean Smart especially in the case off the Estj. Its all a matter of perspective oh ya and bias. A very common type but they seem to be up there with ENTJ and ENFJ in regards to IQ. Conversely, if you have 100 ESFJs in the group, chances are, none of them will have an IQ above 129. 15. I have not looked at this websites editing policy but if you could back up your theories with some set in stone fact, than maybe I will come back and view this in a new light. Your IP: Wow. How about the idea that there are different paths. learn the cognitive functions. Fe is a very good function and there social skills are amazing and enfjs are the most charismatic humans. but "Which MBTI has the greatest capacity for influence?". Often we'll question it if this isn't the case. ISTJ- I put them higher than the ISFJ because they dont just blindly follow things like them. -We don't write decent articles on feelings. How's that for ENTP; basically "I say reverse-engineer IQ tests!" Please don't fool yourself. I am an INTP with iq 152 in mensa and i believe Intp/intj are the smartest and moat intelligent. This person also can explain things to others in great detail and very clearly, while me, at that same position will be stumbling to find the right words as I grasped the situation intuitively, and would find it hard explaining it to people in detail. I once partnered with an INFJ managing a State presidential Campaign - My partner was brilliant, and one of the few people to earn my respect - And yet when it came to "Strategic and Positioning" (Guessing) decisions he always deferred to my ENT thinking because he understood we were dealing with relating to many different personalites which the ENT has a natural understanding of. 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. He can grow up to invent things, get straight A's, and even influence the environment heavily all while being ISFP. In a meeting room with 100 members of Mensa, you will probably run into sixteen ENFPs, eleven INTPs, eleven ISTJs, and ten INFPs. The irony of my problem, in the existential paradigm became self-evident. Several Myers-Briggs personality types show a more social or societal focus, thus scoring lower on IQ tests and earning less income. INFJ It follows the same pattern I am already talking about. You are simply wrong if you think we're close-minded. 6. There can be smart people in any type and there can be dumb people in any type. On that end it really seems to me that extroverts should hold a little more weight. But which personality type is the smartest? ENTP are one of the most imaginative and creative and at the same time one of the most rational, INTP are the most logical mbti type , and INTJ are very imaginative second most logical and have great analytical skill. So we are like mirrors. But then again I'm an INFP myself and if it's relating to my type or me as an individual , I personally love studying stuff I can relate and connect with deeply and personally as well as tools which help me understand people and their motives better. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. ENTJs and ENFJs (intuitive types) have less than the average amount of people with high IQs as well, so its not necessarily a sensor versus intuitive thing. However, there are exceptions. Interesting, though i think it might be misleading! Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. e.g. If everyone were completely healthy geniuses the same in every other stat besides mbti, the INTJs would simply be the most drawn to becoming what most people culturally believe to be intelligent, and therefore be the most influential in what most people culturally believe to be intelligence. I know this is eons old now, but great article. Because these situations themselves vary too and will be quite different from the test. Animals share the emotional traits that humans possess, but they don't share the reasoning traits. I have 2 masters degrees. Both will reach very similar conclusions but from different angles. As you can see most of this stuff doesn't matter that much except for S/N. But I'm smart, somehow. } Opinions are baseless unless confirmed by some hard data .. and there is no data here .. Ni might have more intrest in learning than Ti and Ne. We constantly strive to provide you with the best information possible. 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. Perhaps not the smartest, but definitely the most influential. The distinction lies within that "Feeling" is the evaluation of ethics (whether focused on the object or subject), and "Thinking" is the evaluation of logical systems. i think this is an interesting "start" to answering this idea of smartest type, but at the end of the day its convoluted because to mbti there are 8 functions of general strengths and only a handful of different ways to see intelligence quotient. I would like to know where you got your numbers from, this all seems to be assumption and to me cannot be put down as a credible source unless you have facts to back up your theory's. Many include the sensing and feeling aspects of personality. Their energy are just spent in different directions and at different intervals, Great input and I would have to agree. Lack of source, logically inconsistent (why if it's a measure of 2% of smartest population, no type goes over 2%), methodology is dubious (how were types identified?, so far there is no empirically proven way to measure them; also, the whole data almost follows a close pattern IN>EN>IS>ES: real world data are rarely this clean). Not that it's that important.. Oh my I am ENFP. ), Er did you perhaps mistook 1 for being the lowest? Very happy to find my family's various four personality types at the tip-top of the list. E's are usually influential in the foreground as leaders while I's are generally influential in the background as philosophers. Wow - you people really believe this stuff? "People who are smart generally rise to the top of influence ". Don't allow your emotions to dictate your perception of theory and speculation. With all the time they spend with others they wont learn much. Other big brains on the list are ESTJs. its either intp, intj, or entp.. INTP, funny you should mention that INTPs seem to be intuitors more and INTJs thinkers. Watch on We first need to define what we mean by smart. However, unlike their feeling counterparts, the ENFJs, these types are lacking when it comes to their emotional intelligence. I'm an INTP and my IQ is 160 ( 17 years old). And you may not even be an accurate INTJ/INTP because the test itself might not be accurate. I have to say that this is a pretty interesting study. Personally I'm Enfp and I wouldn't say I am anywhere less intelligent than my Intj best friend. Nobody cares about "smart". I'm also basically useless. She's smart in her way, and I'm smart in my own. And these broad blanket statements and generalisations? This is where the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) comes in. 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). On the flip side, even though the feeler is using emotion the way that they are pulling the emotion through introversion is going to bring a great level of precision and accuracy. Where are your sources? It's a case of each is just better at yielding solutions a different kind of extremely -but equally- difficult and complex problem. LOL. And to yet another it may be impersonal. If we go by these assumptions on human behaviour, we see predictable patterns that we can analyse thoroughly: intuitives tend to show more of the "intelligent" behaviors and sensors the "unintelligent" behaviors. Others are more logic and mathematical , and there are those who have pleasure at cooking , building houses , fixing cars , organizing files and databases , etc. The INTJ is a close second though, third would be INTP. As they get older, many sensors start to rely more and more on their intuition because they develop their 3rd and 4th functions later in life almost to the point that they can be mistaken for intuitives. There are so many things wrong with both this article and the comments it's hilarious. If I had to give one an edge I would give a slight edge to P's as they are generally more involved with abstract things which are more primary and closer to a first cause than the more physical and real world things. What is "intelligence"? INTPs are philosophical innovators fascinated by logical analysis, systems, and universal theory. For instance, many believe Introverted Intuition to be the source of the most intelligent/insightful/enlightened thinking and ideas. ENTJ and INTJ. Why don't we talk Chakras? But this is about applying that sensitivity to your decision making process, which most animals do not do- they tend to make choices based on instinct. In any case, thank you for reading and I hope you have a better insight into why MBTI exists: not to be the be-all-end-all to humanity but to exemplify certain patterns of thought and behaviour in humans. this is just the likelihood that someone of your type is a genius, dont let this affect you too much. Intelligence and Influence. So does that person become that much smarter by reason of how (or perhaps how strongly) they answer that question? They are both so close and there are plenty of arguments on both sides. What is the most intelligent personality type, regardless of how it is measured? Cheers, lol, This is a great article, well written & insightful breakdown of the MBTI types.although I would like to add & highlight .."How are you describing what "smart" or "intelligent" as being?? This is a very loose analysis and sorrowly inaccurate. The N-types reaching the innovation posts, while S-types try to make those innovations practical. Recent: Science VS Religion - Which Is Right? I would say the same about a varying mix of Es and Fs versus Is and Ts. A big fail. And that is the paradox. Im never biased. The way we define smart matters a lot on the application at hand. N's are almost always more influential than S's. They can assimilate data from multiple sources and collate them into a workable vision. -This has to have science to be right I wouldnt have guessed that just by sheer number ENFPs are more likely to have higher IQs. Being a proficient writer of fiction requires an adept utilization of symbolism, foreshadowing, use of metaphors and similes, etc., in addition to a great sense of imagination. And if you're the 'dumbest' personality type, keep in mind that this article was about a certain type of intelligence. E's derive their energy from I's. On the contrary, it is a disadvantage for introverts not to be able to get energy from the outside. Estimation of things FP. Well, this gets even more tricky. 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. they are masterminds In short, they're more open to new ideas and can theoretically see how those ideas fit in the existing ones, and they don't close themselves off to unfamiliarities. NFs were next, except for one particular type, ISTJ, which came after all NTs and before all NFs. In actuality, they were the only tie on the list. There is a lot more than just the four dichotomies going on. Highly intelligent, they are inspired innovators and motivated to solve intellectually challenging problems. There morals can make them selfish and kinds stupid. They are good at making people feel happy and are natural performers in art, drama or dance. Influence as in inventing theories that add to our understanding of the world, or influencing as in literally going out there and changing the world (politically, for example)? By holding on to this concept; before appointing it's substance as a substrate, perhaps it can help define the boundaries in which to progress. It seems pretty clear that the two go hand in hand. INTP (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving) was Albert Einsteins personality type. Those with who can find a balance between their logical and emotional reasoning when they make decisions are capable of solving a puzzle that many on either edge don't know how to attack. If you want to create a stronger ranking of the types, I recommend basing it off the individual functions of each type, rather than on just the Big Four. Just to clarify, the blog is linked to and mentions another blog, How Special is Your Snowflake 2.0, which has lots and lots of statistical data and sources. Why don't we talk left brain vs right brain? We are committed to bringing you researched, expert-driven content to help you make more informed decisions 1. Excellent (logical) research that is based on nothing but opinion and not reasonable at all. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Intps like Darwin had many children. INTP Sorry mate, but you fail on this one. all in all INTJs are better with logic of the kind A+B=AB Thinkers almost always score higher than feelers when it comes to IQ. In simpler terms, Average INTJ's have a higher IQ than average INTP's, but genius INTP's have a higher average IQ than genius INTJ's. However, you are right. These highly aesthetic individuals have a mindful presence, always acting in the moment. 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