A facet of Openness
Intellect (openness to ideas) measures your intellectual curiosity: the taste for thinking, debating, understanding how things work and playing with abstract ideas. It doesn't measure intelligence, but appetite for the intellectual.
You enjoy thinking for pleasure: abstract ideas, debates and whys genuinely hook you. The cost: sometimes you get lost in theory and keep going over what already called for action.
You prefer the concrete and applicable to the theoretical: thinking for its own sake doesn't seduce you and you get to the point. The blind spot: you may dismiss valuable ideas as 'too abstract' without exploring them.
Careful: this doesn't measure how much you know or how clever you are, it measures how much you enjoy the exercise of thinking. Loving ideas doesn't make you smarter and being practical doesn't make you simple. What matters is whether your curiosity opens the world to you or locks you in your head.
Where it shows. It shows in whether a documentary grips you, in your taste for arguing about things with no immediate use, in how you react to a complex problem, and in how much you read to understand.
The test measures this facet precisely, alongside the other 29 - your real percentile, not a label. Free, no sign-up, 15 minutes.
The other facets of Openness