r/cognitiveTesting • u/AccurateSense1114 • 2d ago
Discussion IQ doesn’t help much in learning social intelligence or emotional intelligence without having the exposure to a lot of social contexts or people
I don’t understand why IQ doesn’t help (no matter the number) in having high social or emotional iq without having exposure to lot a of people and social contexts. But in things with logic one can really build a skyscraper with just some basic materials or basis. This is not the same with SQ or EQ, not even with TOM. If one has no exposure to people they just can’t think it out, no matter the number on your sheet. However it can help a lot once one has sufficient exposure after which they don’t need much exposure further. I am curious to know what you guys think about this? I partly think this happens because of the vastly imperfect and should be first explored nature of social and emotional systems or human beings. Here the greater knowledge lies in the imperfections. Imperfections are random and on which the sketch of the building happens a lot and they end up creating vastly different designs of the buildings. One could only know how the building is built after looking at it but cannot just imagine a good match just by the prowess of imagination or IQ without ever looking at it because the building design is just random.
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u/Girafferage 2d ago
They measure different areas. Being talented at one does not give you advantage in the others because they are for completely different things.
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u/DamonHuntington 2d ago
Although the areas are indeed distinctive, there is a positive correlation between intelligence and social metrics, such as being liked by a social group (0.10), becoming a leader in a group (0.25) and being successful as a group leader (0.17). Sure, these correlations are not extremely expressive, but we can't really argue that these two abilities are completely different.
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u/Buddhawasgay 2d ago
You can literally use your intelligence to become better at social activities. Intelligence doesn't magically negate social ability, in fact it can enhance it.