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ILEs get too much credit, as all Ns do, for being "intellectual." I know of many ILEs in blue collar work. The one that lives down the street scooba dives for a living, similarly I've seen ILE mechanics around, security guards, whatever, in pretty mundane work they can handle. I know ILE artists too, a graphics designer and a director. Similarly you're not going to find inventors and scientists everywhere, that is because most of every type is an average intelligence person with an average job, and ILE is an average type, capable of very similar things as everyone else, things I've usually found from experience to be like watching football, hanging out with people and talking trivia, news, TV shows, without much deeper reflection on life. Normal people stuff, all people who don't like doing chores and maintenance, but that becomes the life they live and think about.
I think that we would be the biased ones evaluating ILEs, since we're more commonly intellectuals on here who have intellectual friends. I just know too many Ns around elsewhere who aren't intellectual or very smart to me, nor creative. I know an ILE pastor who is particularly simple-minded and uninventive, and another SLI pastor who is very creative, whimsical and thoughtful. Just examples, examples.