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Comment by warfangle | Hacker News Reader

Hi there, where did you receive your advanced degree in psychology, education and/or psychiatry?

Please leave your pedantic quips on reddit.

"[Goleman] exemplifies more clearly than most the fundamental absurdity of the tendency to class almost any type of behaviour as an 'intelligence'... If these five 'abilities' define 'emotional intelligence', we would expect some evidence that they are highly correlated; Goleman admits that they might be quite uncorrelated, and in any case if we cannot measure them, how do we know they are related? So the whole theory is built on quicksand: there is no sound scientific basis."[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence#Cannot_...

So it's a pedantic argument over the usage of the word intelligence. Sort of like your original quip, no?

Locke suggests the use of the word skill instead; however the definition of intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge and skills.

Given that the NICHD is pushing for consensus, and that I am not (and neither are you, given your non-primary source) qualified to determine the status of EI, let's not dismiss it outright.

How about contributing meaningfully to the discussion instead of alternating between trolling and non-authorative copypasta?

I'll dismiss anything outright that is being used by moronic business-school twits that are using EI as a way to bolster their non-skills and nonsense MBA programs.

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