This isn't facefuckbook, this is real life.

[Massiv0r]

This is my personal opinion on the most intelligent personality type, down to the least intelligent personality type. Now I think that 'intelligent' is a hard word to define, what one person is really good at, another person will suck at and vice versa. Everyone is more intelligent or more knowlagable than another type at one specific thing. But I think what I am really getting at here is intelligence in terms of how much they know, how much information they can store and how quickly and concisly they can solve things.

This is my list and I explain why below.

1. INTJ
2. ENTP
3. INTP
4.. INFP
5. INFJ
6. ENTJ
7. ENFJ
8. ENFP
9. ESTJ
10. ISTP
11. ESFJ
12. ESTP
13. ISFP
14. ISTJ
15. ISFJ
16. ESFP


Okay here's why I listed them in that order.

1. INTJ- They are extremely skilled when it comes to information, storing it and knowing how to use it in the big picture. They waste no time getting things done and no-one else knows 'the world' better than them. They can completely cut out time wasting emotional reactions and see logic, not only that they keep to themselves, storing even more information.

2. ENTP- They are 'big idea' people, they can do what the INTJ's do pretty well, they can store alot of information, the only difference being they outlet it and try and change things by using their information. The only reason I put them lower than the INTJ's is becuase they spend alot of time with people, having fun and influencing people, which wastes time.

3. INTP- INTP's can store SO much information. And they have so many ideas too. They just aren't as pro-active or as consise as ENTP's and INTJ's. The reason I put them higher than INFP's is because they can completely cancel out emotion which can quite often be time wasting, debilitating and can even cloud judgement.

4. INFP- They are like INFP's, they can store a tremendous amount of information and not forget it. I feel like while they have Fi which can make them sensitive, their analytical mind paired up with their ability to see the posiblities means they know answers to things instantly. I put them higher than the INFJ because I feel like their mind is more open to new things. I think they are kind of a blank slate because they can almost become anything if someone tells them to.

5. INFJ- Incredibly 'big picture' people I think they are the smartest when it comes to philosphy in life. I said that the INTJ's were best at 'knowing the world' but by that I mean the logical, factual world. INFJ's are best at knowing the emotional and spiritual world. However if asked to solve a problem their emotion may cloud their speed.

6. ENTJ- They are incredibly smart people and incredibly business minded, they know the world on a business level the best out of all types it seems. I put them lower than the INFJ because they are prone to anger, which can seriously cloud ones judgement. Also they mostly only care about themselves, meaning they are unlikely to store any information which doesn't relate to them.

7. ENFJ- I think they are like INFP's in alot of ways in that they 'know people' so well. But they are so clouded by emotion they cannot help but act on that, sometimes not focusing on the right thing. Although they have the Ni as their secondary function which means they are constantly thinking.

8. ENFP- I put them lower than the ENFJ's because a combination like ENF would entail someone running riot unless they had a J to give it some structure and sense. The ENFP's are fun and smart and know ALOT about people, they are great with new ideas and are quick minded. Only problem being they spend so much time having fun.

9. ESTJ- This type I would say, is the smartest of all the sensors. I think they can seem smarter than alot of the types above. The only difference being they don't know what to do with things. They have no emotional intelligence or intuition to give them an insight into the world. They are good at being in charge and understanding institutions, they are also brainboxes, storing so much factual evidence.

10. ISTP- I think they are so smart because they know the solution to so many things, they are good with their hands and quick on their feet. They could solve any physical thing very quickly. They are not very good with analytical matters but they have a good idea on what to do in most circumstances. I put them higher than the ESFJ because they are more quick on their feet.

11. ESFJ- ESFJ's are intelligent when it comes to people and knowing the right thing to say to make people happy. They are not thick in anyway and are actually smart and sensible people academically. However I feel they have to strong a need to be adored almost always to really be analytical in anything.

12. ESTP- I would put them lower, but I put them here because they are very 'real world' people, they have alot of common sense and do not put up with crap. Although they have little emotional intelligence I put them higher than ISFP because they can get things done much, much quicker than they can. They put logic first, although they are inclined to party alot.

13. ISFP- I put them higher than the others because like many others they have a certain emotional intelligence for visual design. That doesn't help towards storing information but they normally know what to say in all situations, they are lovely people and they can use their charm and innocence to get them forward, despite not have anything at-all that resembles an analytical mind.

14. ISTJ- I put them higher than the ISFJ because they don't just blindly follow things like them. They do follow things alot but they also do know when there is no value or sense in something that's happening. They are pretty sensible people when it comes to how people should live their lives and have a good grasp on right and wrong concepts. They are just not very good when it comes to storing long-term factual data or working things out.

15. 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 ISTJ's but they know how to heal a person to health, in everyway. They are protective over others who look out for them. They have no time for analysing and often don't know what to say, but they understand human beings and humility which puts them higher than the ESFP.

16. ESFP- The least intelligent type in my opinion. They have no time for analysing whatsoever, they are fashionable and fun and like to party but cannot for the life of them work anything out. They are good at making people feel happy and are natural performers in art, drama or dance. They are the most carefree of all times therefore the least intelligent.

Original post by WarriorDreamer (INFP)

 

[Haim]

"how much they know, how much information they can store and how quickly and concisly they can solve things"
That is one of the less important parts of my intelligence,while solving existing problems is important,what we need is to solve new undefined problems,ask the right questions.Creativity and the geneious quality(that is to lead your brain to the right path) are the most important to me.Ok so someone knows more information than me and can solve math problems quicker,will that make him invent something new?make new great game?have the best solution?
That is the kind of stupid thing they test for in school,test are a bad measure for person intelligence.
I see types more as initial direction people start with,being intelligent is being "advanced" in that direction.There are things which other way of thinking types than Ti are better at,whatever it if naturally or by Ti types lack of focus.

 

[QuickTwist]

@OP: K, what type do you think you are?

 

[Tannhauser]

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

OP supposes that mbti correlates with the amount of stuff u know(apparently more stuff u know=ure more "intelligent" or sth) and then ranks the types accordingly. This is ridiculous and stupid

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

^^

 

[Yellow]

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

I doubt it, though DGH gave us some exciting contenders, if I recall.

 

[Fukyo]

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

The making of OP's avatar.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

The making of OP's avatar.

"This isn't facefuckbook"

 

[Black Rose]

On thursday I am going to have an EEG and an MRI scan.

Bipolar does seem accurate in my case.

Normal people don't have a type or a type is susceptible to becoming that illness I supose. Physical and mental trauma. Genetics and whatever.

 

[nanook]

 

[Yellow]

That raccoon would be my spirit animal if I went in for that sort of thing.

 

[Kuu]

It's pretty tasteless itself to just spout vitriol to the OP, however flawed we might consider his views to be. Typical INTP psychopathy.

I, for one, appreciate the sharing. I'll point out just one mistake which I think is more nuanced than the obvious ones already brought up. It concerns the success of ENTPs.

You claim that they spend a lot of time with people, influencing them and that is a waste of time. It is exactly the opposite: influencing people is the secret to the ENTPs effectiveness. Sure, they are so externally driven that out of sheer pro-activeness they eventually hit success as a statistical matter. But their Ne-driven madness can just as easily sink that success. It is the social network around ENTPs that solves this problem. Having a large social network means the ENTP is likely to drag some people into his mad schemes that might actually have the required skills the ENTP lacks to keep the thing operational. This saves them a ton of time and rescues them from themselves.

INTPs major downfall is indeed their incapacity to effectively form social support networks. Ideas struck by INTP's analysis paralysis die a lonely death trapped in their heads, while ENTP's reckless experimentation sometimes gets emergency healthcare and get to live.

Overcoming the shadow function of INTPs is the most important thing they can do: 1) Understand their emotions instead of suppressing them and 2) Learn to engage others and leverage social networks (as loathesome as the prospect of facefuckbook seems).

If social networks were useless, intellectually-challenged ESFPs wouldn't survive, let alone compose a majority of the population! This is why divide comes before conquer...

 

[Jennywocky]

How amusing. My ESFP is probably smarter than many of her peers, she's pretty quick and always was. There's just not a ton of interest in theory, she really is more interested in practical, useful-right-now knowledge. She's easily the most successful of my three kids at the moment (and the other two are INxx types). She tends to be bad at doing things she doesn't want to do (i.e., procrastinator/blowoff from hell), but if she DOES want something (and she's quick to know what she wants), and/or it involves acquiring money (yeah, that one's a clear winner), then she basically plunges in and gets it; it'll be a tossup later to see how that compares to the INFJ, who is a slower worker but quietly determined to succeed.

(The INTP is still drifting around.... "oh... what do I want? I don't know... that's not right... and that's not right... and gosh, well, I don't want to commit to that... and what if that's not the best decision?" ... and working a part-time job making pizzas for college students rather than finishing college. Wheee. He's definitely best at theory, out of the three of them, but not much for converting understanding to specific plans of action in specific situations, in order to accomplish his goals. And he's the least happy with his life, of the three.)

Anyway, people are more than the sum of their theoretical parts and/or cliché type.

 

[Yellow]

The thing is that intelligence is pretty subjective. To someone who values conventional "common sense", anything an ENTP does or thinks is pretty retarded. You'd have to be a moron to experiment with something that's already working, or to not notice something going on around you. But to an ENTP, an ISTJ can appear to be an 2-dimensional being, blundering around completely oblivious to their apparent lack.

These type-based intelligence rankings are usually conducted from the perspective of an NT, and are therefore biased towards an NT's subjective definition of intelligence.

I actually think that's why the newest version of Sherlock is so popular -- he's an S-type genius with some kind of super Si-Ni mutant-hybrid function, and yet he acts like a P in just about every way (It's make-believe, the character doesn't have to makes sense). (why did I go off on this tangent? in order to illustrate that the character seems to be a hybrid of what a bunch of different types would find intelligent).

 

[Massiv0r]

"how much they know, how much information they can store and how quickly and concisly they can solve things"
That is one of the less important parts of my intelligence,while solving existing problems is important,what we need is to solve new undefined problems,ask the right questions.Creativity and the geneious quality(that is to lead your brain to the right path) are the most important to me.Ok so someone knows more information than me and can solve math problems quicker,will that make him invent something new?make new great game?have the best solution?
That is the kind of stupid thing they test for in school,test are a bad measure for person intelligence.
I see types more as initial direction people start with,being intelligent is being "advanced" in that direction.There are things which other way of thinking types than Ti are better at,whatever it if naturally or by Ti types lack of focus.

Yes this is more of a what would each type do under time-stressed situations, i think MBTI is the ultimate logical scheme of what the eyes see but there is way too much emotional diversity with human interaction, hormones senses whatever you wanna call it.

On thursday I am going to have an EEG and an MRI scan.

Bipolar does seem accurate in my case.

Normal people don't have a type or a type is susceptible to becoming that illness I supose. Physical and mental trauma. Genetics and whatever.

We are all we've got, now being a negative person is a very positive trait in my books but you have to use it as a motivation factor, if you were to switch this negativity on other people, you would get an INTP perspective.

It's pretty tasteless itself to just spout vitriol to the OP, however flawed we might consider his views to be. Typical INTP psychopathy.

I, for one, appreciate the sharing. I'll point out just one mistake which I think is more nuanced than the obvious ones already brought up. It concerns the success of ENTPs.

You claim that they spend a lot of time with people, influencing them and that is a waste of time. It is exactly the opposite: influencing people is the secret to the ENTPs effectiveness. Sure, they are so externally driven that out of sheer pro-activeness they eventually hit success as a statistical matter. But their Ne-driven madness can just as easily sink that success. It is the social network around ENTPs that solves this problem. Having a large social network means the ENTP is likely to drag some people into his mad schemes that might actually have the required skills the ENTP lacks to keep the thing operational. This saves them a ton of time and rescues them from themselves.

INTPs major downfall is indeed their incapacity to effectively form social support networks. Ideas struck by INTP's analysis paralysis die a lonely death trapped in their heads, while ENTP's reckless experimentation sometimes gets emergency healthcare and get to live.

Overcoming the shadow function of INTPs is the most important thing they can do: 1) Understand their emotions instead of suppressing them and 2) Learn to engage others and leverage social networks (as loathesome as the prospect of facefuckbook seems).

If social networks were useless, intellectually-challenged ESFPs wouldn't survive, let alone compose a majority of the population! This is why divide comes before conquer...

..and yet you are here justifying yourself because all of your social network only cares about the social mask you project.

The thing is that intelligence is pretty subjective. To someone who values conventional "common sense", anything an ENTP does or thinks is pretty retarded. You'd have to be a moron to experiment with something that's already working, or to not notice something going on around you. But to an ENTP, an ISTJ can appear to be an 2-dimensional being, blundering around completely oblivious to their apparent lack.

These type-based intelligence rankings are usually conducted from the perspective of an NT, and are therefore biased towards an NT's subjective definition of intelligence.

I actually think that's why the newest version of Sherlock is so popular -- he's an S-type genius with some kind of super Si-Ni mutant-hybrid function, and yet he acts like a P in just about every way (It's make-believe, the character doesn't have to makes sense). (why did I go off on this tangent? in order to illustrate that the character seems to be a hybrid of what a bunch of different types would find intelligent).

Yes actually there is a "conspiracy" going on in the real world where Sensors find N-types untrustworthy. Are you an ISFJ ?

 

[Yellow]

Yes actually there is a "conspiracy" going on in the real world where Sensors find N-types untrustworthy. Are you an ISFJ ?

How'd you guess?

 

[Massiv0r]

How'd you guess?

That freaking avatar staring into my soul.

 

[Kuu]

..and yet you are here justifying yourself because all of your social network only cares about the social mask you project.

Please explain to me how I'm justifying myself, and what about? I'm a bit slow.

 

[Black Rose]

Please explain to me how I'm justifying myself, and what about? I'm a bit slow.

He means you are bad at acting out a persona and rather be direct to get what you want. Or you are just oblivious to how to manipulate people.

 

[groovytaxi98]

lol if intelligence is how much you know, then I'm certainly not as high as your list places my type. I am quite intellectually lazy and don't care for learning about every single thing I come across. Sometimes I am quite slow to solve the simplest of problems.

However, the only thing I can say I'm better at than most people is seeing things that others don't... understanding how the world works and what others are blind to and suffering from as a result.

edit: according to your definition for INFJ I approve.

 

[Sinny91]

I enjoyed the OP. Your offered stereo types are similiar to the ones which I envision. I've also been described as extremely anti-social..

 

[onesteptwostep]

I disagree with INTJ @ 1st place.

Whenever I think INTJ I automatically think 'douche' rather than 'intelligence'. An INTJ to me is someone with a bamboo spear and a bandana around his eyes screaming proudly into the night, aimlessly confident. An INTP, and stealing Tann's line here, is "zen as fuck".

Ti-Ne-Si > Ni-Te-Fi

How can you function with Ni and Fi in your cog-stack? liek srsly

 

[Massiv0r]

On thursday I am going to have an EEG and an MRI scan.

Bipolar does seem accurate in my case.

Normal people don't have a type or a type is susceptible to becoming that illness I supose. Physical and mental trauma. Genetics and whatever.

Anyhow because i can see where you are coming from... you should experiment with high doses of vitamins (B6) in particular and physical exercise helps tremendously, mental illness isn't real but feeling inadequate and emotionally deprived is.

 

[Massiv0r]

Please explain to me how I'm justifying myself, and what about? I'm a bit slow.

ENTPs go wide they rarely dive into the ocean and under pressure they fly away, INTPs have weight on them (Si) they go deep and they can't help themselves in the pressure, they reach bottom.

 

[QuickTwist]

I fail to see the connection between CFs.

 

[Kuu]

ENTPs go wide they rarely dive into the ocean and under pressure they fly away, INTPs have weight on them (Si) they go deep and they can't help themselves in the pressure, they reach bottom.

You produce words, but you haven't answered my question.

You also haven't addressed my observations regarding socialization and time wasting.


Do you even discuss?

 

[QuickTwist]

OK, so you are INTJ, I think I understand that now.

Do you think that within type people have different levels of intelligence? Is an INTJ always smarter than an INTP? If so, explain.

I am having difficulty seeing the pattern to what makes a particular type smarter than another. Could you explain the thought process and/or knowledge behind what caused you to come up with this list? What told you to put these types in that order in other words.

 

[Tannhauser]

To figure out whether you are INTJ, simply look at how much time you spend telling the world how clever you are.

 

[Grayman]

To figure out whether you are INTJ, simply look at how much time you spend telling the world how clever you are.

Type? -I wouldn't do that. Why would I continually state the obvious?

 

[bvanevery]

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

Yes. Killing the inferior types, to make certain the results are correct.

 

[headspace]

Is there a more tasteless (and useless) activity than rating types based on "intelligence"?

Rating women based on chasteness.

 

[headspace]

I am having difficulty seeing the pattern to what makes a particular type smarter than another. Could you explain the thought process and/or knowledge behind what caused you to come up with this list? What told you to put these types in that order in other words.

It's all there in the original post.

 

[QuickTwist]

It's all there in the original post.

Yeah, looks like he just slapped some general descriptions together and said that one was smarter than the following type and dumber than the previous. Not exactly what I was asking. I was asking if there was a pattern between either the MBTI type letters or CF and I don't see that.