One presumes he's just coming at the question from his niche. I understood his rant to mean essentially that EQ has no validity as a psychological metric used t

One presumes he's just coming at the question from his niche. I understood his rant to mean essentially that EQ has no validity as a psychological metric used to predict real-world measures of success, and that IQ is the king of the same. Within which terms, AFAIK he's correct on both counts. But that doesn't mean he's claiming IQ is the most important thing about a person, he's just saying it's the only psychological metric that's a really strong predictor of certain future events. (Of course, the questioner probably didn't care about any of this, so I agree that the answer is weirdly off-putting in that sense.)