Not Everything Is Intelligence: The Feel-Good Fraud of Emotional IQ
Somewhere along the line, society decided that plain old competence was too cruel a sorting mechanism. We could not just say one person is intellectually sharp and another person is socially graceful. That would leave somebody without a trophy. So we pulled off one of the slickest little semantic scams of the modern self-esteem era: we took people skills, wrapped them in the prestige language of IQ, and handed socially adept mediocrities an honorary genius badge. ...