“Emotional intelligence” as IQ Envy
16th September 2013
Steve Sailer blows the whistle.
Social scientists notoriously suffer from “physics envy.” This feeling is quite reasonable: physicists can predict many phenomenon (and they built the atomic bomb, which probably helps even more in garnering respect).A stranger phenomenon, however, is “IQ envy,” since the study of intelligence is routinely denounced as a pseudoscience. And, yet, if you keep your eyes open, you’ll notice that intelligence is one of the most glamorous attributes in the world of marketing.