They meant 16 types. Wierd wording though. I'm not backing these sources, I just wanted to show that whatever somebody says about mbti and 'smartness' there'll always be a study to back it up.
Actually in one of the only 'official' studies they found that young entps had the highest or second highest iq : P. I don't remember the age range, but hey, we stay young inside our heads.
OK, its misleading, so what is the sample size cos the issue still exsists, if the sample size is too small then at best its qaul finding.
Dont' worry I didn't think for a minute you were advocating the results. For what it's worth "offical doesn't make it nessesarily good". I've seen wickedly badly conducted and interpreted data from some highly regarded organsiations.
"You mean the low success rate of ppl making little clubs where they get similar people to tell them how great they are and should never change because they're perfect just the way they are as their moms always said."
I'm not sure I totaly follow your thinking, but what I meant by sucesses doesn't = sucess, mensa is full of unsucessful people, IF one chooses to measure sucess as seniority at work or materialisim.
It gets us into what does sucess mean, and this thread is about IQ and MBTI, and as you said there will be loads of conflicting "research" on the subject.
Intersting to share and I would be interested to know WHO the sample was, how rep is was and the sample sizes involved. So many of these are on the student population which makes the findings pretty irrelevant.