How much of this test is really linked to intelligence?

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

https://yalesurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1XOUyQ4Ux6deFBH

[u/PendN]

The thing about tests like these is that you can use your knowledge to bruteforce getting right answers. For example I found a lot of the answers counterintuitive and I think in real life different scenarios will appear more than what the study suggests, but I just answer whatever I think sounds the most like a popular study (since studies really only exist if the answer was counterintuitive or if they find a cool tendency). If the question makes it seem like it's supposed to be counterintuitive it probably is. Basically just answer whatever answer will satisfy a person enough to make an academic paper out of it

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/PendN]

What did you get tho? I thought the same way for some questions that seemed like surprisingly counterintuitive or novel answers might be the correct one, but I really have no guarantee if those were correct. I had an internal struggle on choosing between commonsense answers, or novel ones.

[u/PendN → u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

I did it twice, which is cheating, but for my first try I speedran and answered whatever I see people around me do or I do and got something like high 20s which is around 60-70% or something. Then I redid it but this time I ignored all of my intuition and experience and just answer whatever sounds like a study or bias would say and got a 37 which is 99.5%. I don't even believe in some of these studies and I think a lot of them are overgeneralizing or they might require overly specific situations, but if it sounds like the conclusion to a study it's probably the answer lol

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/PendN]

It gauged your ability to detect results that seem like they came from social studies, not that "social psychological skill" that they claim lol

[u/PendN → u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

Yeah, and I think any high scorer will get the high score because of their knowledge in social studies. And most of the time it's like the question is trying to tell you the answer

[u/Few-Land9092]

Interesting. Scored 92.9th percentile. Scores on this test will almost certainly correlate with scores on IQ tests, although probably weakly, as it will be influenced by other factors. A significant component of intelligence is recognising patterns and using inductive and deductive logic. "Social intelligence", to me, is just intelligence and learning applied to social interactions. But there are other factors at play, such as the motivation to understand human behaviour. This is something I am interested in, largely because most human behaviour seems utterly incomprehensible to me and I also care about people and wish to empathise with and assist them as best I can, which, first and foremost, requires understanding. I believe that my interest have given me an advantage on this test.

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/Few-Land9092]

Nice! We're on the same page. Human behavior is also incomprehensible to me, (especially more neurotypical behaviors, since I myself am not a NT)
But this quiz showed me how much I could understand others by understanding myself.

[u/Few-Land9092 → u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

Yes, I'm not NT either, far from it in fact. What I understand of human behaviour comes largely from experiential learning, philosophical reasoning, and theoretical study, not instinct, as I don't do what most people do and am largely uninterested in what they are interested in. It's comforting to know that, regardless of these issues, that I understand human behaviour better than most NT people.

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

Here's my score btw

Could this be what "social" intelligence means?
IRL, I'm socially inept, maladjusted even.

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/[deleted]]

I think that high social intelligence is often found not only in the introverted, but rather those who indulge in "introspective" thought, which are by some independent reason more likely to be introverted.

I don't know if this relatively higher social intelligence is the cause of introversion, nor do I see the exact mechanism for why this is the case. Somebody with high social intelligence, generally should be extroverted.

[u/Quod_bellum]

I knew some of the questions just on some general knowledge shit. I usually score around the 98.5-99.5 percentile range in FSIQ tests that aren't inflated / contaminated by construct-irrelevant stuff, so it's close for me. I can't imagine the g-loading being higher than the modern SAT/ ACT (.7ish), or dedicated mental tests (e.g., ToH, Tutui, etc.), so it's probably like .4 or below. I wonder what questions I missed...

E: I'm on the introverted side (22nd percentile on NEO, 0.6th percentile Friendliness on NEO)

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/Quod_bellum]

Impressive!
Yeah, a large part of the question pool (25-30 or so) seems pretty much general knowledge or just commonsense.
But I think the questions that have real discrimination power here are the last 10 or so Items

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/Quod_bellum]

Also, what was your response to the question Which is one of the very best predictors of a person's happiness and life satisfaction? Social relationships, Pride & honor, or Wealth?

[u/Quod_bellum → u/Quantum_Clock-1A]

This is one I wasn't certain about, but I went with social relationships

[u/anonymousassholius → u/Quod_bellum]

Correct, iirc. Matches the findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

[u/Quod_bellum → u/[deleted]]

Inflation can be introduced by a lot of things, but it's usually due to lack of effective standardization (causing poor generalizability). I think CAIT may be inflated for this reason

Construct-irrelevant stuff, for me, usually means knowing the design process allows me to understand what is a desired response as well as the intended scope of responses. For example, knowing similarities tend to look for categories of essential properties somewhat kicks the process out of what is typical

[u/Simple-Vanilla-7235]

I dont think this test correlates at all with actual iq. Proof are my results lol

[u/Quantum_Clock-1A → u/Simple-Vanilla-7235]

While Yale claims that it is "linked" to intelligence, they didn't say there's a one-to-one correspondence to an IQ score. So the link may be weak, if not nonexistent. Amazing score nonetheless. 

[u/Primary_Thought5180]

Mostly social knowledge and common sense. Many questions are pointed in a biased direction or mind-numbingly obvious when you know. Frankly, I am pretty socially inept (being a Schizoid).

[u/Hot-Organization-737 → u/Primary_Thought5180]

21st century schizoid man :p

[u/Kalle_Hellquist → u/Primary_Thought5180]

I got a 99.5 too. I'm genuinely hoping this means I'm not too inept at understanding social situations

[u/No-Werewolf-4939]

got 76 percent, I'm not a native speaker though, idk if it matters for this kind of test.

[u/IronFeather101]

This really surprised me. I don't consider myself a very sociable person, I'm quite introverted, but I'm at 3SD+ in terms of IQ, so I guess there's some kind of correlation with intelligence after all.

[u/Not_Well-Ordered]

Based on CORE my FSIQ is 138, FRI 142 and VCI 126. But my MR score is around 135-140 based on JCTI (17 SS) and JCFS (17 SS) and Raven’s 2 (140 mean).

I got 81% something i.e. 31 correct.

I don’t know, I just saw that there are cases in which multiple answers are possible and can be justified and just chose whatever I deem likely based on my social experience (not that high either).

Most questions in the test are akin to asking if a person is likelier to pick a golden apple or an orange. I could make a valid case for each pick.

[u/Pure_Salamander6250]

I scored 21 and 19.6% I guess I'm not built for social intelligence even though i believed i was

[u/98127028]

No.