IQ & EI
I personally believe that if a longitudinal study were done, IQ would be a much stronger predictor than EI of which jobs or professions people can enter. Because IQ stands as a proxy for the cognitive complexity a person can process, it should predict what technical expertise that person can master. Technical expertise, in turn, represents the major set of threshold competencies that determine whether a person can get and keep a job in a given field. IQ, then, plays a sorting function in determining what jobs people can hold. However, having enough cognitive intelligence to hold a given job does not by itself predict whether one will be a star performer or rise to management or leadership positions in one’s field....!!!
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The one place I expect we
The one place I expect we will be seeing more data showing a relationship between skills in the emotional and social arena and school performance will be in studies of children who have gone through social/emotional learning programs. These curricula give students the self-management skills they need to learn better. And so to the extent that advantage boosts learning (as opposed to IQ, which differs from learning), they should do better on academic achievement scores.
So learning seems to be another domain where EI may matter – whether more than IQ is an empirical question....?????
IQ usually has an inverse
IQ usually has an inverse correlation to EQ. However, the experience of trauma is another significant factor in the need for learning, nurturing in social and emotional skills. Since Higher IQ can intersect with trauma, there is all the more reason to keep a healthy strand of social and emotional learning going on in a classroom. Sounds as if we are in agreement. The pressure that teachers feel to meet test scoring goals puts them in a tight spot to take time for these programs. BUT leaving out the EQ structure is at the child's peril. Build the relationship foundation and the instructional results will come in with greater depth & complexity ---given the opportunity to go that route.