'Idiot-Savant' Traders?

[Rearden Metal]

'Idiot-Savant' is no longer the politically correct term, of course. "Asperger's" is the modern name for the phenomenon, where a person can be so unusually talented at specific numbers-based tasks like code breaking, software engineering, and perhaps... trading?

After seeing one INTP after another in the Myers-Briggs threads, I wouldn't be surprised if many of these traders are actually full blown keepers of The Gift and The Curse

Think you might be one yourself? Take this test and find out!

 

[jimrockford]

I think that on this website, even though it has a great deal of valuable content, the "idiot-savants" are outnumbered by the "idiot-idiots".

 

[Exchanges]

Number 9 on the AQ test reads:

"I am fascinated by dates."

Personally, I find pineapples and kiwis intriguing.

Does this count?

x

 

[limitdown]

why are they always called Idiots?

stop talking bad about us.....

__________________
Two Bear Hunters went Upstate to hunt some bear....
they came across a (road) sign that said: Bear Left,
--- so they went home.....
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A Rancher put his Donkey in his pickup truck
--- so could it be said: "he was hauling ass?
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A Pharmacist picked up his watch
--- so could it be said he had time on his hands
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Two fsih are swimming and run into a wall, the first one says: Blub...Blub...., the other fish says: Dam!

 

[nononsense]

Quote from jimrockford:

I think that on this website, even though it has a great deal of valuable content, the "idiot-savants" are outnumbered by the "idiot-idiots".

We badly need those - of both kinds. Who else would pay for my profits?

 

[Lucrum]

35, is that good or bad?

 

[1000]

Quote from jimrockford:

I think that on this website, even though it has a great deal of valuable content, the "idiot-savants" are outnumbered by the "idiot-idiots".

We don't need no education ..... .....

Hey teacher leave them kids alone ..... .....

 

[PoundTheRock]

Hello, my name is PTR. I am an INTP and scored 32.

 

[Avid_Consumer]

22 here. i could see the direction they were going, and how to generate the savant score if one wanted to.

 

[gnome]

Idiot, schmidiot....

The BEST theoretical trader would be Mr. Spock. Pure logic, no emotion.

The second best would be Gomer Pyle... he'd just do what Mr. Spock told him.