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Do you think that your inability to relate to other people in your organization is related to your obvious superiority complex? No one cares what your IQ is. T
by psychometry 13y ago
Do you think that your inability to relate to other people in your organization is related to your obvious superiority complex?
No one cares what your IQ is. There are many different kinds of intelligence and some of them, like social and emotional intelligence, also contribute to your personal success within any particular organization.
- JasonFruit 13y agoI won't dispute that the things called "social intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" exist, but is it really correct to refer to them as intelligence? I think that unduly twists the language to make a social point.
- benched 13y agoI relate to straight shooters who say what they see. I understand that fronting, ass covering, being indirect, and speaking the mel[odious] language of business are ways to play the game. Mention of IQ induces reflexive invocation of multiple intelligences like ipecac, but IQ-style intelligence is directly relevant to programming. High emotional intelligence makes it worse when you're in a toxic corporate environment.
- psychometry 13y agoThe only people who are overly concerned with IQ and take advantage of every opportunity to mention their own score are the people who have nothing to offer but an IQ score. You come across as incredibly haughty and condescending.
- mitochondrion 13y agoI agree that his comment seemed haughty, but I'd like to mention that yours does as well. I disagree that "only people who are overly concerned with and take advantage of mentioning their IQ". More likely, it's just that smart people with empathic intelligence don't mention it. You know, because they realize that others don't like feeling "dumb".
- jodrellblank 13y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html - disagreement level 0 or 1, you're just throwing insults without addressing their position at all.
- mitochondrion 13y agoStraight shooters are great, but you will NEVER have a positive reaction when you talk with people about your IQ. Especially when 145 is so much higher than most. If you have a 145 IQ and you mention it to 1,000 people, you've just pissed off 998 of them.
- philh 13y agoI find it a little amusing that you would talk about social and emotional intelligence, right after you directly accuse someone of having a superiority complex. No one cares what vis IQ is, but they care how good ve is at programming, and ve attributed vis programming ability to vis IQ. Do you think that connection is false, i.e. that there is only weak correlation between programming ability and IQ?
- waterlesscloud 13y agoAs soon as I read OP's sentence about his IQ, I knew someone would respond, showing their lack of emotional intelligence by attacking him over it. Thread did not disappoint.