— MBTI & IQ Research
ENFP IQ — what's the average for The Campaigner?
The average reported IQ for ENFP (The Campaigner) across published MBTI cognitive studies sits around 116 — placing the typical ENFP in the 86th percentile of the general population.
ENFPs show high divergent thinking scores and above-average verbal IQ. Ne dominance favours novel pattern detection.
Why ENFPs tend to score where they do
→Pause. Find out YOUR IQ before you keep reading.MBTI type is not a measurement of intelligence — it's a personality typology rooted in Jung's cognitive function theory. But certain dominant function patterns correlate with cognitive task performance:
- Extraversion — tends to favour rapid integration of external information
- Intuition (N) — correlates with strong fluid reasoning and pattern recognition on IQ tests, which is part of why NT types consistently score highest
- Feeling (F) — correlates with verbal-conceptual reasoning strength
- Perceiving (P) — has the weakest individual correlation with IQ; matters more for working style than raw ability
The honest caveat
→Curious how YOU score? 20-min calibrated test.Average IQ by MBTI type is a statistical tendency, not a rule. The standard deviation within any single type is typically 12-15 IQ points — which means there are ENFPs scoring well above 145 and ENFPs scoring below 90. The type tells you nothing about any individual's actual cognitive ability.
If you want to know YOUR actual IQ rather than the average for your MBTI type, take a properly calibrated test that uses real psychometric scoring (IRT 3PL Bayesian MAP estimation) rather than a quick quiz.
How ENFP compares to other types
→The numbers above? Find out where YOU land.- ENFJ — average IQ 116 (The Protagonist)
- INFP — average IQ 117 (The Mediator)
- ISTP — average IQ 117 (The Virtuoso)
- INFJ — average IQ 120 (The Advocate)
- ESTP — average IQ 112 (The Entrepreneur)