[CCCXXIX]

You know, this forum is a great place to ask questions and interact and whatever. It is not a good place to try to ascertain results to an experiment that should really be controlled.

For instance, many people try to start these "how high is your IQ" threads. For the people that start these threads, first of all most of the people on here are taking online tests. Those are not accurate at all, are extremely flawed, and if you got a high score on one you are still probably just an average joe and not special. Secondly, different scores mean different things on different tests. So this guy that got a 128 could have a higher IQ than another guy who got a 135 on a separate exam.

From the MENSA website:
"The term 'IQ score' is widely used but poorly defined. There are a large number of tests with different scales. The result on one test of 132 can be the same as a score 148 on another test. Some intelligence tests don't use IQ scores at all. Mensa has set a percentile as cutoff to avoid this confusion. "

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Did you know that if you really did have an IQ of over 140 , you are considered a genius? Did you know that makes up less than .25% of the population? Are you really so ignorant to believe that several people on personality cafe are part of this .25%? I don't think a single person on this forum is.

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BUT CCCXXIX I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF NTs ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE HIGHER IQs THAN SILLY SENSORS!!!!

Wow, really? You do realize that this kind of question has plagued the academic community. A simple search for academic articles, and you can find the results for CONTROLLED experiments. Articles that will give you a wayyyyyy more accurate answer than you will ever find here. And you can find academic articles that not only relate MBTI types to IQ, but also EQ, and BQ, and whatever else you want to know.

Here's an excerpt from one such study:
"To better understand the putative relationship between personality style and cognition, we assessed adolescents and adults on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)and the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult intelligence Test (KAIT). The MBTI provides scores on four indexes: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The KAIT provides Fluid, Crystallized, and Composite Intelligence Quotients.Participants consisted of 1,297 individuals, aged 14 to 94 years, who were tested throughout the United States during the nationwide standardization of the KAIT. It was hypothesized that individuals favoring Intuition and Thinking would be more intelligent and would favor fluid over crystallized intelligence relative to those favoring Sensing and Feeling, respectively. Several multiple analyses of variance and covariance (MANOVAs and MANCOVAs) were conducted with sex, race, KAIT IQ, and KAIT Fluid and Crystallized IQ discrepancy serving as independent variables and continuous scores on the MBTI used as dependent variables. Consistent with hypothesized relationships, people classified as Intuitive earned higher KAIT Composite IQs than those classified as Sensing. However, most other hypotheses were not supported, as the Fluid-Crystallized discrepancy was not meaningfully related to any MBTI dimension."


From the Article: "The Relationship of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to IQ Level and the Fluid and Crystallized IQ Discrepancy on the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT)"

[hydrogen]

This is along the lines of what I was thinking!
If I recall correctly, there was one poll titled "Post your superior IQ ratings" and in the options there was >155, and I just went "WHAT?!" It seemed like some sort of joke gone wrong, because people have answered it with serious intentions in mind.

Yeah, the IQ threads are boring now.

[Perhaps]

Not to mention that they're basically just dick-measuring contests anyway.

[MegaTuxRacer]

Not to mention that they're basically just dick-measuring contests anyway.

No there are much simpler and more valid ways to measuring your dick.

[Perhaps]

No there are much simpler and more valid ways to measuring your dick.

Of course. So they're inefficient, on top of everything else.

[MegaTuxRacer]

Of course. So they're inefficient, on top of everything else.

And ineffective.

[TrailMix]

bahahaha. this is right over a "NT IQ" thread thing. I thought it was funny hahaha

but I agree.

[CCCXXIX]

This is along the lines of what I was thinking!
If I recall correctly, there was one poll titled "Post your superior IQ ratings" and in the options there was >155, and I just went "WHAT?!" It seemed like some sort of joke gone wrong, because people have answered it with serious intentions in mind.

Yeah, the IQ threads are boring now.

Lol anything over a 149 would allow you to join the Triple Nine Society or Genius Society. These societies are only for the top 0.01% of the world population. Geniuses usually lack social skills, as they are about the same distance on the IQ scale from normal people as mentally retarded people are from normal people.

So if you have friends, sorry you're probably not a genius.

http://static.onemansblog.com/wp-con...-bellcurve.jpg

[NeedsNewNameNow]

Well the MBTI online tests are inaccurate, so why don't we end all discussion of personality types too?

[CCCXXIX]

Well the MBTI online tests are inaccurate, so why don't we end all discussion of personality types too?

This is a personality typing forum first and foremost. People try to post IQ threads when they shouldn't, because people on here lie to make themselves feel better. I mean look at the IQ poll.... Really? Over half the perC community is in the top 2% in the entire world?

MBTI tests are seen as very inaccurate and more of "a good place to start". Most people agree that the best way to discover your personality type is to first grasp the concept of the cognitive functions, and break it down from there. IQ tests are verified and approved, and then administered by another party. MBTI there is no wrong answer, there is just this and that, and for the most part people pick what they want to be, not who they are. On an IQ test there is only one right answer.

Should I go on? Am I making your head hurt? Let me guess, you came out INTP and thought, "hey I'm super smart I'm an INTP, they call my type the thinker, I'm like the next Einstein. I think I'll go on the forum and try to be a funny smartass".

Newsflash, you can be iNtuitive, analytical, and this and that, doesn't mean you're good at it.