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    Quote Originally Posted by liveandletlive View Post
    there's a BLATANT bias here that NT=intelligence. ask any SF person here. you're on the other side of it all so you may not be as aware of it... but yeah.
    edit: i don't have a damn clue whether this thing is public or not or what that even does. forget it.

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    let me further explain myself- thank you niffy for making this a new thread, i truly appreciate it.

    i sometimes wonder how others react to me and my posts if they would react to me the same way if i were not a SEE. not only that, but you can even see this NT intelligence bias in the high number of people claiming to be NT types, or really even N types or T types on this forum. Yes, these people are the ones who would be the most attracted to and interested in socionics, but i find it hard to believe that 100% of these people are accurately typed (especially all the ILIs). Thus showing that some of these people may want to be a certain type or want people here to perceive them as a certain way. Furthermore, I've had SEVERAL experiences on this site (i guess this is to be expected with all the T people around) with T people saying hurtful, disrespectful, unneccessary, and unjustified things towards me and others with a complete disregard for how others may feel. As far as I am concerned, this is ridiculous. IMO, this forum is for people at all stages of understanding socionics to discuss their observations, insights, experiences, whatever. As a feeling type, I can definitely see other feelers not participating as much in the forum because of people's rudeness. IMO, that is a damn shame and the people who participate in such cruelty on this site should be ashamed of themselves. I'm definitely not the only S, F, or SF type to have experienced this bias on this forum and I'm interested to hear what others have to say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liveandletlive View Post
    let me further explain myself- thank you niffy for making this a new thread, i truly appreciate it.

    i sometimes wonder how others react to me and my posts if they would react to me the same way if i were not a SEE. not only that, but you can even see this NT intelligence bias in the high number of people claiming to be NT types, or really even N types or T types on this forum. Yes, these people are the ones who would be the most attracted to and interested in socionics, but i find it hard to believe that 100% of these people are accurately typed (especially all the ILIs). Thus showing that some of these people may want to be a certain type or want people here to perceive them as a certain way. Furthermore, I've had SEVERAL experiences on this site (i guess this is to be expected with all the T people around) with T people saying hurtful, disrespectful, unneccessary, and unjustified things towards me and others with a complete disregard for how others may feel. As far as I am concerned, this is ridiculous. IMO, this forum is for people at all stages of understanding socionics to discuss their observations, insights, experiences, whatever. As a feeling type, I can definitely see other feelers not participating as much in the forum because of people's rudeness. IMO, that is a damn shame and the people who participate in such cruelty on this site should be ashamed of themselves. I'm definitely not the only S, F, or SF type to have experienced this bias on this forum and I'm interested to hear what others have to say.

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    i really think it's funny that you keep on responding to things i've written when your ignored. ahhhh ignorance is bliss. but yes, you should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating some of the things i mentioned above. ah wait, but you won't will you with that whole Fi PoLR thing, right? thanks for proving my point.
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    there isn't a bias towards NT and intelligence; it's a fact that NT's consistently score higher. Just look at all the historical geniuses - 99% of them are NT. That being said, there are many different types of intelligence, and us NT's lack very much in the emotional aspects and interpersonal relations, more so the I's. liveandletlive, you seem to be attached to this subject, as I've noticed it in multiple posts of yours, whether directly or subtlely. On a side note, after reading one of your posts the other day, I thought 'this is the smartest ESFp I've encountered'.

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    I'm an SF and would consider myself Intelligent.
    Intelligent when it comes to socionics... No, and I'm ok with that.
    Do I really care if anyone here finds me intelligent or not, not really.
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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    there isn't a bias towards NT and intelligence; it's a fact that NT's consistently score higher. Just look at all the historical geniuses - 99% of them are NT.

    this wonderful bit of completely unsourced and ridiculous speculation earns you a long sought-after spot on my ignore list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    You will be treated like an intelligent person when you give others reason to believe that you are one. discojoe, Diana, and bionicgoat are all SF, and all are treated as intelligent people. SlackerMom, Mea, Kristiina, anndelise, Baby....I could go on with the list of NFs who are treated just like the NTs, STs, and SFs.

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    not only that, but you can even see this NT intelligence bias in the high number of people claiming to be NT types, or really even N types or T types on this forum. Yes, these people are the ones who would be the most attracted to and interested in socionics, but i find it hard to believe that 100% of these people are accurately typed (especially all the ILIs).
    and they aren't. but not necessarily because they're stupid.

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    NT=intelligence, but really, some people take that for superiority, just because NT types are supposed to be the smartest temperament.
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    Quote Originally Posted by niffweed17
    this wonderful bit of completely unsourced and ridiculous speculation earns you a long sought-after spot on my ignore list.
    for the first part of my statement, how about you name me 5 historical geniuses who had a preference for sensing.

    for the second part, did you read the article hhkkmr posted?

    and for the sake of it, name all the "really smart" people you know, then compare that with their type.

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    I can see why there's a perceived bias towards NTs being intelligent, especially given the influence of MBTI and Keirsey implying that intuitives are the intelligent ones, but I think anyone who genuinely is intelligent would be able to use said intelligence to realise that personality type doesn't even come into it. I think one common tendency is for intelligence to be equated, in people's minds, with things like logical and abstract thinking etc., which then makes it seem like those who are naturally pre-disposed to such thinking styles must be intelligent. Which IMO is bullshit. At the end of the day, it's impossible to define exactly what intelligence even is, because there's so many different perspectives that people can put on it. If you're going to consider intelligence to be all about logical thinking and mental capabilities, then an NT will look like an intelligent person. If you consider intelligence to be about being aware of the world around you and being in-tune with reality, then a sensing type would look like an intelligent person. Unfortunately my intelligence (or lack thereof, however you look at it) prevents me from thinking of any more examples, but the point I'm trying to get across here is intelligence is NOT type related and that an intelligent person of any type will be able to put their intelligence to its best use WITH THE SKILLS THEY HAVE.

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    There are different types of intelligences, I believe...

    In some situations I feel like I can more than hold my own in the smarts department, in others I feel like a completely incompetent moron.


    EDIT: I think I just pretty much said what BLauritson did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BLauritson
    At the end of the day, it's impossible to define exactly what intelligence even is, because there's so many different perspectives that people can put on it.
    you were right about the different kinds. in a sense, intelligence can be looked at as how 'in tune' with the universe your mind is. The degree of complexity that you can think about the relationships in the universe with, the level of difficulty of information you can understand. Sure, betty-susie may have a real nac for gardening and understanding her physical surroundings, but she may not even be able to understand calculus, which, to me, signifies greater mental ability, because it deals with problem solving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    you were right about the different kinds. in a sense, intelligence can be looked at as how 'in tune' with the universe your mind is. The degree of complexity that you can think about the relationships in the universe with, the level of difficulty of information you can understand. Sure, betty-susie may have a real nac for gardening and understanding her physical surroundings, but she may not even be able to understand calculus, which, to me, signifies greater mental ability, because it deals with problem solving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BLauritson View Post
    I can see why there's a perceived bias towards NTs being intelligent, especially given the influence of MBTI and Keirsey implying that intuitives are the intelligent ones, but I think anyone who genuinely is intelligent would be able to use said intelligence to realise that personality type doesn't even come into it. I think one common tendency is for intelligence to be equated, in people's minds, with things like logical and abstract thinking etc., which then makes it seem like those who are naturally pre-disposed to such thinking styles must be intelligent. Which IMO is bullshit. At the end of the day, it's impossible to define exactly what intelligence even is, because there's so many different perspectives that people can put on it. If you're going to consider intelligence to be all about logical thinking and mental capabilities, then an NT will look like an intelligent person. If you consider intelligence to be about being aware of the world around you and being in-tune with reality, then a sensing type would look like an intelligent person. Unfortunately my intelligence (or lack thereof, however you look at it) prevents me from thinking of any more examples, but the point I'm trying to get across here is intelligence is NOT type related and that an intelligent person of any type will be able to put their intelligence to its best use WITH THE SKILLS THEY HAVE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    Sure, betty-susie may have a real nac for gardening and understanding her physical surroundings, but she may not even be able to understand calculus, which, to me, signifies greater mental ability, because it deals with problem solving.
    But aren't we dealing with values now? Seems like this might make perceptions of intelligence more judgements of how that other person is strong or weak at what it is that's important to the observer. Something to consider.
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    Eek, personally I just wanna say that I think intelligence to me is how much of a capacity you have for understanding/comprehending something, anything.

    This is a pretty broad statement, which is good cause it can apply to many different areas of learning, etc ... therefore yeah, there are many different "types" of intelligence ... just that it all boils down to something simple.


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    bleh
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    This is a bit of a silly question, realy. Asking if there "is" a bias is pointless, because obviously SOME people have biases, no matter what we do. There are also plenty of people who don't. It's just not this black and white.
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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    there isn't a bias towards NT and intelligence; it's a fact that NT's consistently score higher. Just look at all the historical geniuses - 99% of them are NT. That being said, there are many different types of intelligence, and us NT's lack very much in the emotional aspects and interpersonal relations, more so the I's. liveandletlive, you seem to be attached to this subject, as I've noticed it in multiple posts of yours, whether directly or subtlely. On a side note, after reading one of your posts the other day, I thought 'this is the smartest ESFp I've encountered'.

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    I agree, that is a good way to look at it.

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    NTs just appear more intelligent because they focus on things that are typically viewed as the realm of "intelligent" people(abstract + logical ideas, which is why Ns are typically viewed as more intelligent than S types, and ST types as more intelligent than SFs on this forum, because that's what Socionics is mainly concerned with.) This focus causes an illusion that NTs are more intelligent that not only they believe, but others propogate as well. However, focus on an area of thought =/= a necessary superiority in it, and also causes their other intelligences to be diminished. That's the reason's there's types...the intelligences are in different areas in a room and everyone is shining their intellectual flash-light in different places, and this is what causes them to seem "brighter" than others in that area. But you can choose to shine your light in that area of the room...even though it makes you feel uncomfortable or bored or whatever(what you value ie type), and can still be capable of producing the amazing results that other people who are always shining it that area are capable of producing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Minde
    Have you ever gardened?
    I'm sure it's a real mind-boggler

    anyway, whoever said that my description was biased...um...not really, because being able to solve real problems through an understanding of complex patterns does signify intelligence. whether it be understanding the physics behind an athlete's tackle or the mathematics involved in calculating the number of moles of an an element in a compound....

    what do you do when you think? your mind conceptually travels through the waves of the universe. intuition is correlated with underlying abstract patterns and logic is basically the rational governence of the universe...so, I would naturally expect an NT to be smarter. there was a time when I thought myself ISTx, and I would have said the same thing then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Minde View Post
    There are different types of intelligences, I believe...

    In some situations I feel like I can more than hold my own in the smarts department, in others I feel like a completely incompetent moron.


    EDIT: I think I just pretty much said what BLauritson did.

    This is what I always have felt. However, I do find G-Factor really intriguing. But I do wonder if there is above and beyond G-Factor alone? We, as a global society, are at such youthful stages of social and or cognitive science, I believe.

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    yeah, salawa, those online ones are mediocre at best....I've never taken a real one, but my old therapist told me what was on it and demonstrated some stuff. there are four categories: verbal, spatial, processing speed and short-term memory. basically, visual is like the blocks and drawing pictures, i.e. attention to detail....processing speed deals with matrices and symbol-coding, short-term memory is where they say #'s, letters or both, in any order and you have to repeat them back....and then verbal is like metaphors and conceptual reasoning and vocab.

    I would not be surprised at all if an ESTj scored higher on memory than an INTj....I think the visual fields are where NT's would score best, NF's might score higher on verbal....

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    I'd say that most people on this forum are open-minded enough to recognise that each type is valuable in their own way. However, I think that in wider society, there is definitely a bias in the clever people being NTs (nerds). NT stands for something else - Nerdic Thinker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salawa
    It doesn't make any sense that an NT would score highest on visual as a rule -- such a task is mostly related, I would think.

    Which is not to say that an individual NT won't, but rather I wouldn't make that prediction based only on sociotype.

    One moment, I'll find my test report so I can make a better comment.
    ahh, this is what I hoped you would notice. I would conjecture that S's would be better at the visual portion that deals with attention to detail and quick scanning...however, the block are about abstract patterns, seeing the whole....so intuiters would theoretically be better at that (I suck at scanning shit, but can synthesize shapes and stuff like that easily).

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    It's just not true. There are dumb NTs with typical NT interests but that don't understand things particularly well or easily, and the opposite is true for SFs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG
    It's just not true. There are dumb NTs with typical NT interests but that don't understand things particularly well or easily, and the opposite is true for SFs.
    very true, just uncommon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    very true, just uncommon.
    No, no. I know all the people that were in the top 20 as far as SAT scores go at my college, and they're pretty evenly distributed across the 4 temperaments. Sorry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG
    I think dumb people are much more common than one would hope.
    dumb NT's are uncommon

    Quote Originally Posted by FDG
    No, no. I know all the people that were in the top 20 as far as SAT scores go at my college, and they're pretty evenly distributed across the 4 temperaments. Sorry.
    SAT's!!?? are you kidding me? anyone can score high on the SAT's as long as they have half a brain and have been programmed by the school system to think a certain way. The SAT is not a good indicator of true intelligence.

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    Yeah yeah, so it's you the only one able to assess intelligence. Which could be even true, but we need an objective standard in order to be able to speak the same language.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG
    Yeah yeah, so it's you the only one able to assess intelligence. Which could be even true, but we need an objective standard in order to be able to speak the same language.
    agreed, but we need to know what we are speaking about when we do. IQ is the closest thing to quantification.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    agreed, but we need to know what we are speaking about when we do. IQ is the closest thing to quantification.
    And SAT scores have a pretty good correlation with IQ scores so I used it as proxy (turns out these 20 people i spoke about all have wide and varied interests bla bla, none of them is your typical guy that has to study 3423545 hours to get an high score. You'll see that this is generally the case for the tail of the distro)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezra View Post
    I'd say that most people on this forum are open-minded enough to recognise that each type is valuable in their own way. However, I think that in wider society, there is definitely a bias in the clever people being NTs (nerds). NT stands for something else - Nerdic Thinker.
    I've met many NT's who compete in sports and succeed, such as soccer and swimming. Like my father, I could never describe him as a nerd. Well maybe, he doesn't care how he dresses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG
    And SAT scores have a pretty good correlation with IQ scores so I used it as proxy (turns out these 20 people i spoke about all have wide and varied interests bla bla, none of them is your typical guy that has to study 3423545 hours to get an high score. You'll see that this is generally the case for the tail of the distro)
    yeah, I agree. if you take an IQ test, then take an SAT, the results will be similar. but these days, peoples' final scores on their SAT's are higher than their actual abilities, unless they're one of the really smart people who takes it once and does really well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    dumb NT's are uncommon
    roflstiltzkins, so wrong.

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    Can you give any examples of dumb NT's?
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    hitta.
    Nice try.

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