You're getting IQ and personality type all wrapped up in each other.
Does personality type have any predictive power at all as to what jobs a person is good at? 29% of programmers are INTJ - OK, great, but that doesn't tell you if they're actually any good at it.
IQ is certainly a better predictor of performance, in as much as every job has a lower bound on IQ.
And you're straw-manning the "hard work leads to success" argument. Probably no one - even the staunchest believer in bootstraps - thinks a sub-85 IQ can be the next Bill Gates no matter how hard they work.
It's not ironic at all that you make a sweeping assumption about me [...] If you don't find this unsettling then you may just be a psychopath!
tit for tat, I guess.
Look, don't take this the wrong way, but my observation is that most INxxs (especially INTJs) put a lot of stock in the MBTI because they believe their type indicates that they're really smart.
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You're getting IQ and personality type all wrapped up in each other.
Does personality type have any predictive power at all as to what jobs a person is good at? 29% of programmers are INTJ - OK, great, but that doesn't tell you if they're actually any good at it.
IQ is certainly a better predictor of performance, in as much as every job has a lower bound on IQ.
And you're straw-manning the "hard work leads to success" argument. Probably no one - even the staunchest believer in bootstraps - thinks a sub-85 IQ can be the next Bill Gates no matter how hard they work.
tit for tat, I guess.
Look, don't take this the wrong way, but my observation is that most INxxs (especially INTJs) put a lot of stock in the MBTI because they believe their type indicates that they're really smart.