• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    not even better; just differently… EQ is another component of overall intelligence and there are plenty that we don’t apply standardised scores to

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      3 days ago

      My IQ is clearly higher than my wife’s while her EQ blows me out the water. Guess which person is the most successful human being, by any metric other than IQ. I’ll give ya three guesses, but you’re only gonna need one.

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      2 days ago

      Terrance Tao is smarter than I am but he is not better in some absolute sense, so you don’t need to deny that he’s smarter on my behalf. Instead, here are some unquantifiable things that do make people meaningfully “better:” kindness, passion, empathy, courage, honesty, wisdom.

      Honesty bids me to acknowledge that Tao is smart, and wisdom that it doesn’t matter (re, the meaning of life). Lastly, standardized tests don’t measure EQ because it’s hard to quantify and irrelevant for college placement.