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Originally Posted by Athenian200
I'm not trying to apply anything to ISFJ's specifically, I'm saying that that could be what's going on, based on his description and the functional order. I don't know whether it is or isn't. I think there are just as many ISFJ's who would accept being less intelligent than an INTP more gracefully than the person in question did. Like I said, I believed (although I could have misinterpreted) that this person was still immature and competitive.
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It *could* be correct, but I still think it's more likely to be a simplification of two-sided misinterpretation, with a dash of sterotypical "she's an ISFJ, so her motives are very likely related to social hierarchy, damn her!" - when it may just be an issue of noncompatible personalities and a lack on both sides to give the other some credit and the benefit of the doubt. Of course, I don't know the people in question, so I could be wrong, but I really don't think it's just an "ISFJ's are jealous and intimidated by my superior intellect" thing - ugh.
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Originally Posted by Athenian200
Also, I think that type is related to intelligence to some degree. For instance, I'm an INFJ. That means I'm dumber than all the NT's (which I understand and accept), as smart or slightly smarter than most other NF types, can be smarter or dumber than an SJ depending on their age, skill set, and subject. I am smarter than SP's excluding ISTP's, who are sometimes slighter smarter or dumber.
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You're an INFJ. This alone makes you more or less intelligent than exactly nobody. This, I'm not going to budge on
. Trying to metric-ize intelligence is difficult at best, and although I'm certain that however you choose to define intelligence there's at least some range among people (which in most cases may or may not be particularly significant), I'm pretty confident that it has no strong relation to type,especially trying to use type as a predictive element upon an unknown person's intelligence. Interests, methods of interaction, what thoughts and activities people choose to focus on - those I could believe are influenced by type. But raw intelligence? I don't think so.