Why do I always get the impression

[xyz]

That xNxx types think they're so much better/smarter than us Sensors?

[xyz]

Wait, you don't like them because they surprise you?

[FDG]

I think this is one of the few sites that promotes the debunking of this stereotype.

[xyz]

Oh yeah, I never meant this particular site. In fact it's why I like it here so much; People don't automatically talk down to me like I can't understand concepts or something.

[BLauritson]

I think it's an MBTI bias - the intuitive MBTI profiles are portrayed as being more intelligent or whatever compared to the sensing MBTI profiles. I think one of the women who developed the theory had typed herself INFP, and by some strange coincidence they're supposedly the rarest type according to a lot of statistics. Probably similar to the alpha bias that Socionics started with - the woman whose name I won't even try to spell who founded it was a self-typed ENTp, and so all of a sudden the early ENTp profiles were made out to be God's gift to the world. Well, maybe not quite that much, I don't know. But that's the impression I gather - glorification of the founder's type.

[aestrivex]

I think it's an MBTI bias - the intuitive MBTI profiles are portrayed as being more intelligent or whatever compared to the sensing MBTI profiles. I think one of the women who developed the theory had typed herself INFP, and by some strange coincidence they're supposedly the rarest type according to a lot of statistics. Probably similar to the alpha bias that Socionics started with - the woman whose name I won't even try to spell who founded it was a self-typed ENTp, and so all of a sudden the early ENTp profiles were made out to be God's gift to the world. Well, maybe not quite that much, I don't know. But that's the impression I gather - glorification of the founder's type.

OMG MBTI IS BIASED??

[BLauritson]

OMG MBTI IS BIASED??

I know! I nearly defenestrated myself in shock when I found out.

[Jarno]

N types consider S types to be superficial, simplistic, over practical.
S types consider N types to be dreamy, floating, useless, unpractical.

(IMO)

[FlameReborn]

N types consider S types to be superficial, simplistic, over practical.
S types consider N types to be dreamy, floating, useless, unpractical.

You mean we're not dreamy, floating, useless, unpractical?

[Jarno]

N types consider S types to be superficial, simplistic, over practical.
S types consider N types to be dreamy, floating, useless, unpractical.

You mean we're not dreamy, floating, useless, unpractical?

yeah you're right, probably we are, but then again, in the end we could be more practical and usefull then the S people think we are.

[Ezra]

I think this is one of the few sites that promotes the debunking of this stereotype.

Agreed.

[anndelise]

There have been a few threads on this forum stating that N types are smarter than S types because, according to the authors, S types can't do N, but N types can do S.

A number of people here still correlate intelligence with N, with T, and particularly with NT/TN.
grrrrr

[liveandletlive]

There have been a few threads on this forum stating that N types are smarter than S types because, according to the authors, S types can't do N, but N types can do S.

A number of people here still correlate intelligence with N, with T, and particularly with NT/TN.
grrrrr

i agree! ironically this is a very S thing of them to do! This also may seem very S of me, but what good is intelligence is you can't apply/use it in the real world? Don't get me wrong you all know what my suggestive function is obviously, but S definitely has its advantages too. I think that because S seems "normal" that this stigma comes about.

[anndelise]

i agree! ironically this is a very S thing of them to do! This also may seem very S of me, but what good is intelligence is you can't apply/use it in the real world? Don't get me wrong you all know what my suggestive function is obviously, but S definitely has its advantages too. I think that because S seems "normal" that this stigma comes about.

the part I bolded: exactly!!!!
that's also how I feel about intelligence tests. It doesn't matter how high a number a person scores if they can't flippin use it in the real world.

also, there's a reason that N types seek out S types!! and you've hit the nail on the head as to one major reason why.

[inumbra]

Often in MBTI-ish descriptions, S seems to be defined as the absence of N. S is described as involving "the use of the 5 senses." Since Ns can also "use their 5 senses," S is left sounding rather mundane and unremarkable.

It's sort of like saying

N = {m, a, p, q, r+z, c*l, g^2, v, w/j, ... and all manner of wonderful things!}
S = Not N = um, those other things... 5 senses, yeah.