Luckily only very few people are true psychopaths, less than 1% actually - which doesn't mean they cannot learn to be empathic in some way. Unfortunately many p

Luckily only very few people are true psychopaths, less than 1% actually - which doesn't mean they cannot learn to be empathic in some way. Unfortunately many people lack social intelligence which can make it difficult to interact with them, let it be in the workplace or in the private life. I mean it's somehow a big topic in the IT world. People don't talk too often about it, but sometimes make jokes about it. However, I think that it's a thing also outside of the IT world and there people get away with it much more easily. In the normal world people with low "EQ" (or whatever name people prefer) are considered annoying or as*, within IT they are considered incompetent.