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Is EQ an accurate gauge for intelligence,especially since the animal with the highest EQ is a tree shrew?
You are confusing EQ with simple brain to body mass ratio. Small animals have proportionally larger brains because when a body part, such as an arm, is small, it take just about the same number of neurons to move it as you do a larger arm. Therefore, as animals grow bigger, their brains do not grow proportionally. Large animals therefore have proportionally smaller brain to body mass ratios. To correct for this, a more accurate formula is derived to take this into account. As the Wikipedia explains:
"Generally, small mammals have relatively larger brains than big ones. Mice have a direct brain/body size ratio similar to humans (1/40), while elephants have a comparatively small brain/body size (1/560), despite elephants being obviously quite intelligent animals.
Several reasons for this trend are possible, one of which is that neural cells have a relative constant size. As an animal's brain gets larger, the addition of more nerve cells will cause the brain to increase in size to a lesser degree than the rest of the body. This phenomenon has been called the cephalization factor: E = CS2, where E and S are body and brain weights and C is the cephalization factor. Thus just focusing on the relationship between the body and the brain is not enough; one also has to consider the total size of the animal. To compensate for this factor, a formula has been devised by plotting the brain/body weight of various mammals against each other and a curve fitted so as to give best fit to the data.
The formula for the curve varies, but is usually given as Ew(brain) = 0.12w(body)2/3."
"Generally, small mammals have relatively larger brains than big ones. Mice have a direct brain/body size ratio similar to humans (1/40), while elephants have a comparatively small brain/body size (1/560), despite elephants being obviously quite intelligent animals.
Several reasons for this trend are possible, one of which is that neural cells have a relative constant size. As an animal's brain gets larger, the addition of more nerve cells will cause the brain to increase in size to a lesser degree than the rest of the body. This phenomenon has been called the cephalization factor: E = CS2, where E and S are body and brain weights and C is the cephalization factor. Thus just focusing on the relationship between the body and the brain is not enough; one also has to consider the total size of the animal. To compensate for this factor, a formula has been devised by plotting the brain/body weight of various mammals against each other and a curve fitted so as to give best fit to the data.
The formula for the curve varies, but is usually given as Ew(brain) = 0.12w(body)2/3."
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Your Emotional IQ does little good if you are hit by a Mack Truck.
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Here is my proposal as a way to determine someone's intelligence level. (from my novel)
How did God decide who among them were the smart ones, and who were ‘not-so-smart’?
To determine a person’s intelligence level, don’t ask him what he knows, don’t test what he knew before he met you. Instead, simply teach him new information, and see how quickly he learns; and more importantly, how quickly and effectively he uses the information. Can he apply the information in solving unforeseen problems? Can he use the new information to learn even more information? [Uncle Wayne’s Law of Reality]
The ultimate test of a person’s intelligence is the viability of his contingency plans.
Your Emotional IQ does little good if you are hit by a Mack Truck.
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Here is my proposal as a way to determine someone's intelligence level. (from my novel)
How did God decide who among them were the smart ones, and who were ‘not-so-smart’?
To determine a person’s intelligence level, don’t ask him what he knows, don’t test what he knew before he met you. Instead, simply teach him new information, and see how quickly he learns; and more importantly, how quickly and effectively he uses the information. Can he apply the information in solving unforeseen problems? Can he use the new information to learn even more information? [Uncle Wayne’s Law of Reality]
The ultimate test of a person’s intelligence is the viability of his contingency plans.
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I'm not sure how they measured the Emotional Intelligence of a shrew but I took this test and scored a 54.
EQ is a better indicator of potential life success than IQ.
http://www.ihhp.com/quiz_parse.php
RScott
I'm not sure how they measured the Emotional Intelligence of a shrew but I took this test and scored a 54.
EQ is a better indicator of potential life success than IQ.
http://www.ihhp.com/quiz_parse.php
RScott
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does this mean EQ = street smarts? that means most gang members and drug dealers would score high right? along with militia members and SF and seals odd group isn't it?
does this mean EQ = street smarts? that means most gang members and drug dealers would score high right? along with militia members and SF and seals odd group isn't it?
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Every creature needs some edge of survival talent. Such a small animals needs all the help it can get !
Every creature needs some edge of survival talent. Such a small animals needs all the help it can get !
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