Dammit, I was lied to?! :steam: I tried to search out the stats and I can't find it. The powers that be. . .
For the united states -
Estimated Frequencies of Types - CAPT.org
I think where you're coming from is that all of us are different from the norm in some way, and there's always going to be something to pick on. I agree fully with that. The difference is more how well each deals with it that perhaps determines the extent of the "scarring", isn't it.
Hmmmm, just to be clear, there seem to be two trains of thought;
1) The literal sense of "it gets better for Ns", which I would agree with (in the sense it doesn't get better for Is or Ps), since I think that's true regardless of the starting position.
2) A lot take this to mean that Ns suffer more as children. I disagree with this. I don't see much support for Ns have issues - not from bullying, not academic or coping skills. I think this is very much a "grass is greener" view.
Was the post cut? This could be a derailment, but why are kids with high IQs singled out; wondering is it a culture thing?
It's not just bullying, but the school system they are in...
Kids placed in schools, especially public schools, don't have the freedom to explore their intelligence. This results in smart kids being everything from "ADD" to worse.
Asian societies are far more likely to push their kids way farther, one advantage to having such a huge testing system, but as far as I can remember, it doesn't influence the factors on who is picked on.
If you were to force a rank for victims of bullying, etc for every attribute, it is P,T,I,S. Gifted children tend to be IN-P, offering some correlation between factors in intelligence and victims.
Having said that, bullying is still a process - personality doesn't make one a victim, only that there is a smaller subset (roughly 40% of victims) that fit the personality factors above quite tightly.
Regardless of all that, the underlying point is that Ns don't really suffer from being targeted by peers at all - it's the only factor that has no significant influence. Likewise, academics don't punish Ns at all - Ns tend to perform slightly better (and progressively so).
But yes, Ns do better as time goes on; I wouldn't say they suffer as children... not while almost every other trait can be linked to a pretty clear negative aspect.