Comment by Gilbert246 on Social intelligence, education, & the workplace · 2013-05-03T11:36:33.304Z · LW · GW

To my knowledge most differential psychologists wouldn't claim that intelligence is the moderating effect per se when it comes to success. After all IQ is merely defined as "what the intelligence test measures". I don't know enough about social intelligence to comment on that really, but I do like your point. I guess we have all seen studies in diagnostics suggesting that incremental validity of most variables is small to non-significant when compared to intelligence. But what does that tell us if we don't have a real understanding of what we actually define as "intelligence"?

Also I think one should differentiate between fluid and crystalline intelligence. While I would expect the former to correlate with basically any measure of success the later one prolly doesn't by too much.