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creativity often takes the form of restoration rather than creation.
Safer/bigger, not different, is the goal of an intelligent Guardian, and security rather than
improvement is the prize sought after. The Guardian directs their attention towards multiplying and
safeguarding their resources by making wise, careful investments; forestalling threats, and
constantly maintaining and monitoring their domain.
Myers and Myers (1980) offer additional insight into the intelligence of Guardians. (It should be
noted that while the authors were supposedly discussing the intelligence of all Sensors, in reality
they seem to have focused mainly upon the SJs. All the intelligence-related examples they gave
were for SJs, and they noted that most Sensors are Judgers. They also divided the Sensors up into
the SF and ST categories rather than SP and SJ categories used later by Keirsey and also in this
book. Considering all of this, I have decided to deal with their results as if they applied mainly to
SJs.)
One of the most salient points that emerged was that Guardians seem to get higher scores on
intelligence tests when they rush themselves. Guardians care very much about “making sure,”
which means reading a question multiple times, double checking their work, and choosing slower
but more certain methods. But many intelligence tests are timed; this puts an immediate penalty on
the SJs because they cannot answer as many questions. Whereas the Artisan’s style of intelligence
is fast but error-prone, the Guardian’s style of intelligence is more accurate, but slower.
(Painstaking accuracy and “soundness of understanding” are the Guardian’s strengths.)
What kind of difference does this make in terms of scores? In the example that Myers and Myers
gave, an ISFJ got a score 10 points higher on an IQ test after she stopped reading the questions
multiple times before answering. (In case you’re wondering, the ISFJ took a parallel form of the
test; it wasn’t the same one over again.)
If we were to create an intelligence test that is fair to Guardians, it should be untimed and
emphasize accuracy. It should be a “power” test rather than a “speed” test. Note that there are
Guardians that achieve truly exceptional scores on I.Q. tests. Like the Artisans, they accomplish
this in spite of the test structure rather than because of it.
Rational Strategic Intelligence
Rationals have the type of intelligence that is popularly recognized as such. They excel in science
and math; they solve abstract problems; they design complex systems, they create long range
strategies, they focus on accumulating knowledge and building theories. We will examine the
manifestations of this intelligence in INTJ geniuses shortly.
The Value of I.Q. Tests, Continued
Despite the problems that intelligence tests present for Guardians and Artisans, I.Q. tests do
accurately measure intelligence for certain types--mainly INs and ENPs, and to a lesser extent all
Intuitives. For Introverted Intuitives and ENPs alone, an I.Q. test is more or less fair, and can be put
to valid use for comparative purposes. An INTJ with an I.Q. of 150 is really smarter than an INTJ
with an I.Q. of 140, provided that both INTJs have the same levels of Introversion, Intuition,
Thinking, and Judging rather than being borderline on one of the preferences. But an I.Q. test
cannot tell you whether an INTJ with an I.Q. of 150 is smarter than an ESFP with an I.Q. of 140,
because the inherent bias of the test renders the data invalid for ESFPs. Essentially, most Sensing
types cannot be tested because the confounding factors are too strong to permit real intertype