Seymour
Vaguely Precise
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INFP
- Enneagram
- 5w4
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/so
Yeah, Bamboo said that the Big Five "doesn't measure intelligence." It doesn't. It measures personality across five scales.
I agree with what Bamboo said, but that doesn't mean that there's no correlation between various intelligence measures and Big 5 or MBTI. If Big 5 and MBTI didn't correlate with anything, they wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
So, you can make statements "people with type X (or people with trait Y) tend to do better/worse on IQ (or other intelligence) tests" and have some empirical support. That doesn't say much of anything about any particular person of that type (or with that trait).
So I was just trying to point out that even though it's true MBTI and Big 5 don't measure intelligence, there are correlations with some intelligence measures. You can know those correlations exist but remain aware of how little they say about any particular individual (including yourself).