'Actually, intelligence and happiness are linked.  https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/significant-results/201410/the-surprising-connection-between-intelligence-and-happiness  Intelligent people...|||The notion that ESFJ's are unintelligent is borne out of rampant ignorance.  Most people have (by definition) average intelligence and are in no position whatsoever to judge what high intelligence...|||Actually, I wasn't talking about active and passive roles in flirtatious exchanges (or similar activities).|||Maybe you can experiment with your own platonic/romantic paradigms. A game of sorts, which is really what interpersonal relations are.   Predictability implies that you understand basic social...|||Not a female, but I can almost relate. In fact, this about describes my current outlook on romance.  For me, there seems to be hope that it is a passing phase since lately I rarely (but...|||I skimmed the first time through... then realized after I posted, but didn't feel like deleting. And, yeah - I saw my first White Castle as an adult. It's a pity.|||What if I told you... neither do some entire regions in the U.S. Shocking, I know.|||:tongue:|||Military personnel answer phone calls with [greeting], ma'am or sir. Usually the person on the other end says something conversational, with their voice indicating sex. In real life, something like...|||I just wanted to show that you are likely mistaken in your undervaluing assessment of your intelligence.    No, it doesn't. Contrary to what you've been told, level of intelligence can be raised....|||Absolutely.   As others have advised, I would be tactful and do the utmost to factor out any personal vendettas. I would not, however, lie or bother to conceal the fact that her mother is lying.  ...|||You know, often what you don't know is the only thing that can hurt you.  The test designer and maintainer, through private email to an online acquaintance, communicated that (because of the test's...|||There are many reasons. Some would take tomes of explanation, but one most fundamental problem is the Dunning-Kruger effect.   Most earnestly believe that intelligence is negligible because they...|||I thought about this yesterday too, but didn't want to infuse my INTP nitpicking when I understood what the OP meant.|||Somewhat tangential, I was reading through a bunch of Goethe quotes yesterday, and noted to myself that a surprisingly high number of them pertained to doing vs. thinking:   Knowing is not...|||42. The answer is 42.|||Edit: PerC erroneously double-posted my #6 comment.|||Can you sum up why Kiersey rejects the notion of intelligence as cognitive ability? I do as well, but quite possibly (if what I understand so far from the above excerpts is any indication) for...|||I believe both of you are right.  I believe StunnedFox is emphasizing a perfect imitation in language, which is inherently non-sensical, but by definition wouldn't differ at all. And Sequence (in...|||The order produced from chaos is just a rearrangement of chaos into a different chaos, and vice versa (i.e., order to different order).  For instance, decentralization of authority of some entity...|||Possibly.    And I rarely laugh so hard at comments I read online, but I laughed profusely at this.|||I'm glad that mine did the same.    You do realize Occam's Razor is figurative, right? Or should someone lecture you on some more basic stuff? Try here:  Occam's razor - Wikipedia, the free...|||What's worse is not just that he is apparently a scientistic myrmidon, but that he is a dumb and presumptuous one too... unless he knows for certain that the presumed non-scientists and...|||Maybe we should revisit this one after resolving below its concomitant issues.     Well, further discussion on this section is, too, contingent upon an acceptance of Quine's argument, or any...|||I've been in the unfortunate position of trying to explain the pervasive consequences of some ostensibly doctrinaire philosophical idea, only for it to fall on deaf ears.  All things considered,...|||I know. It is, however, somewhat ambiguous. Kind of an all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs sort of deal.  The assertion that non-empirical inquiry is justified, in its most...|||Yes, I do.    We'd have to be more specific. Accepting that conclusion seems to justify *at least some* non-empirical inquiry. From this reasoning alone, and not necessarily other means, one...|||Yes, go study the Duhem-Quine thesis. Pure empiricism is almost as absurd a fantasy as pure rationalism.  No matter how long we study reality, there will always be a certain open-endedness without...|||I think there has been a huge miscommunication.  I never suggested there was an order of gravity between lies. Quite the contrary, I inexhaustively grouped all lies of the variety you've mentioned,...|||If I may butt in, I think you are both right.  Manipulation is something we all do constantly. Human communication of all kinds, for example, is manipulation of thought.  On the other hand, I...|||And from what I understand, this is more of an issue of respect for personal boundaries. My opinion is that should be a more pressing area for discussion since, if a long-term relationship is...|||I agree. There isn't nearly enough data (to my knowledge) to maintain anything conclusive about a perfectly (or maximally) optimal human diet.|||Off-subject: any rhyme or reason to that particular list of exclusions?|||If they're really advanced, they might have about as much interest in us as we have in a run-of-the-mill ant colony. There's really only so much I could expect out of Flick, the ant, as a slave, so...|||entj.|||I figured Socrates would be ENTP-ish. The same Ti-centric style of thinking, but in an extroverted personality.|||My now-estranged wife (who is an INFP) used to have the same issue of becoming overwhelmed in our personal debates. She was quite smart, but had trouble gathering and articulating her thoughts in the...|||Your professor just single-handedly debunked the grounds for evolution theory. She should be proud.|||@ OP question:  Yes, it's hard to do both at the same time!|||Often. Especially if I think it will improve the quality of their life by kindly *suggesting* an alternative.   I think most people have a limit. To illustrate what I mean by limit, if we could...|||Someone taught me how to dougie, and I learned it.|||Be a philosopher minus the dogma.  Many of the world's great religions weren't founded by religionists; they were founded by philosophers who, on the search for truth, found something of assumed...|||I think this is a matter of level of emotional intelligence, of which I haven't noticed, strictly from personal experience, any one type having a clear plurality. I've seen emotionally reactive...|||I think neuroscience has thoroughly inculcated the belief that we are only high-functioning automatons, and I  wholeheartedly disagree with this notion. It would take a lot of explaining to delve...|||While I don't want to downplay the importance of intelligence, I totally agree with the gist of what you wrote about the folly of comparing intelligence for autotelic purposes.  It's like...|||Hello, again.  I had social anxiety as a child so severe that I used to derealize. I was prescribed an SSRI as a teenager, which I only took for a few weeks before quitting due to concerns of...|||Barnett uses a personalized mnemonic system for numbers much like those of classical mnemonics. Most people can memorize high volumes of information quickly in that way.|||You understand my post is directed to you, so why does it matter?    Because you made a potentially specious claim. Either you can support it or you can't. In either event, that should be noted.|||Why do you consider I.Q. tests pseudo-scientific? Do you have any real scientific research to back that claim?  It is my understanding that, despite ubiquitous and usually ill-founded criticism,...|||I have a theory about where that fits into the scheme of things which would be too lengthy to share. But the most glaring problem with defining intelligence in any of those ways is that they are...'