S vs N and intelligence

[Paladin-X]

In your opinion, is intelligence a discerning factor in S vs N?

 

[nanook]

no, until you define intelligence in favor of one of them. and i believe, atm, intelligence is defined in favor of sensors. school and even intelligence tests rely heavily on more or less creative handling of exact memories, not on fluid animated imaginations and perceptive abstractions from concrete perceptions. things like mensa are the kingdom of boring sensors. they are good with organizing reality, but can't improve on any of it in principle, they just work out all of the details. without sensors, there would be not hardware-near computer code, such as assembly or image codecs, there would be no hardware either. some ruff drafts of hardware - sure. there would be no bureaucracy and no traffic control. it's rather impossible to think of a modern world without their contributions. we wouldn't even have recipes, chewing on plain tubers all day long. intuition is only helpful in being a human being, in psychology, philosophy, sections of art, spirit healing and in a better world it would also be useful in politics .... none of these areas are measurable, therefore they have little impact on concrete definitions of intelligence. intuition is basically iconoclastic, anti-schoolar-ish, for example when an intuitor reads, that intuition is associated with intelligence, he automatically gets a vision wherein the opposite is true and this doesn't help with writing what your teacher wants to read. bart simpson is NiFe (smoking weed and understanding the true meaning of 42), millhouse is TiSe (biology, physics, chemistry geek), lisa is FiNe (ethics + politics) the most intuitive guy is the most misunderstood and usually recognized as an idiot.

 

[Brontosaurie]

kudos for the thread Paladin-X

minimal and concise as i would have fashioned it as well.

thanks to you nanook for an even better post than i've come to expect of you. that's not saying i agree but that you express yourself vividly.

i'll contribute tomorrow hopefully.

 

[scorpiomover]

S is the perceptive equivalent of T. N is the perceptive equivalent of F.

There are also differences in their preferences and methods.

One of the differences is that Sensors tend to prefer discrete mathematics like arithmetic and linear programming. Intuitive tend to prefer continuous maths like calculus. They can prefer the other. But there is normally a good reason for it, like an intuitive that had good-quality teachers for arithmetic and linear algebra, but poor-quality teachers for calculus and its applications.

Western countries are taught discrete mathematics, which includes arithmetic, from primary school. Calculus is left till high school, and is generally presumed to be more advanced, require higher reasoning, and more intelligence, because it is taught later.