• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    where is the universally accepted metric for measuring emotional intelligence? clearly there must be a test or something by which we can judge others and ourselves and evalated this ‘skill’.

    oh right, there is none.

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        Right, so i google both those and find that neither of them is widely adopted or used. they are basically in infancy and have substantial history of use or acceptance… and a few papers both showing their methodology is highly suspect:

        Results showed that this is not the case for most items: The answer indicated by experts as the most correct in several cases was not associated with the highest ability; furthermore, items appeared too easy to challenge individuals high in EI. Overall results suggest that the MSCEIT is best suited to discriminate persons at the low end of the trait. Results are discussed in light of applied and theoretical considerations.

        and around we go.

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          But the idea is still clear. Sure, you have essentially steered the argument to “tests are unreliable”, but you haven’t disproved the emotional intelligence itself. You said it - just a buzzword

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            1 day ago

            i can’t disprove the existence of god either.

            are you sure i’m the one shifting the goalposts here?

            my argument form the start was EQ is bullshit, a made up arbitrary metric that has no widespread acceptance. and that is true. And like all bullshit things, people mostly use it to bully and posture each other.

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              I guess we will stay true to our beliefs. Being able to rationally understand emotions, reflect, feel empathy, etc. are not some foreign concepts, it’s real, categorizable human psychology (and neurology?) behaviour.

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                1 day ago

                and they have no objective measure. you cannot measure a feeling of empathy and compare it across two people. empathy can’t be measured like a discus throw or how fast you can run mile.

                they are not measurable things, they are contextualized by culture, language, and society. what is empathetic in one society is considered cruelty in another. and further, it will vary a lot depending on relationship, familiarity, and social dynamics.

                You may think you are the sole arbiter of these things, and you’re welcome to do that in your personal life. but the arrogance it takes you can magically ID people’s ‘empathy’ based on internet posts is just insane ego-projection and and your judgement of how much they say shit you agree with.

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                  Just because you can’t objectively measure amount of love between two people, doesn’t mean it’s invalid theory. You are overthinking this too much, using weird arguments and then try to push a narrative that says “anything that isn’t standardized is meaningless”. By the same logic, pretty much every psychological/personal trait is a buzzword that cannot be objectively measured, and so it’s meaningless. It’s intellectually lazy argument.

                  And no, empathy or ethics or emotions are not race-based (referring to your previous argument where it could be different between groups)

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                    9 hours ago

                    right, it can’t be EQ is a stupid theory with a flawed metric that is essentailly useless… apparently if that’s the case they ALL OF PYCHOLOGY IS NONSENSE.

                    are you serious with this crap? typical lemmy poster, can’t let the bone go and becomes a dog and starts making massive generalizations that society will collapse if their one pet peeve issue needs to be their into a hyperbolic one.

                    it’s fine, you can call me lazy, tell me i have low EQ, whatever makes you feel better about yourself man. The fact of the matter is EQ isn’t taken seriously by psychologists and it’s become yet another therapy-speak term, but hey, i’m clearly a gas-lighting narcissist, right?