IQ and EQ Fail

The past few weeks I took on the challenge to create an equation that can measure the social relationship between two people in accordance to IQ and EQ. I failed. This is meant to be a joke and the math equation is made up for comedy purposes. This is what I have done so far.

We all know about IQ (Intelligence Quotient) used to measure Intelligence, but what does it mean for everyone else? It is believed that people with high IQs tend to have low EQ (Emotional Quotient), whereas people with high EQ tend to have average or below IQ. To make it simpler people with high IQs tend to rationalize their emotions that can be viewed as anti social, apathetic or even uncaring to a person who is naturally outgoing. Of course there are so many variables to this. Not everyone with high IQ is an uncaring soul and not everyone with average IQ are outgoing popular folks. Here is the equation I created that doesn't make freaking sense but fun to do.

Lets go over the first image on the left. Let's say that both IQ and EQ are measured equally and take a person of a 117 IQ and 100 EQ. We then add 117 + 100 to create an IEQ of 217. By dividing IEQ with IQ and EQ then subtracting the values:

IQ / IEQ - EQ / IEQ = X
117/217 - 100/217 = .078

Now that we got .078 for X, we then can plot to where .078 stand on the scale. Base 1 is positive, Base 0 is average and Base -1 is negative correlation. So therefore, .078 is between Base 0 and Base 1 meaning that the person has both attributes of a person with good intelligence and a good personality. But what if we need to figure out how compatible people are within a social circle? Let's make a breakdown.

Think of intelligence as a bell curve, about 2.1% of people are MENSA smart, ~2.1%  legally dumb, ~13.6% below average, ~13.6% above average and ~ 68.3% average intelligence. The same can be done for measuring emotions with 2.1% sociopath, 2.1 very empathetic, 13.6% extrovert, 13.6% introvert, and 68.3% average (variation of both). These are much harder to measure because personal experiences can make a person more or less sociable to his/her environment. Now that we got that down, here is how my equation failed.

Let's say we begin to calculate Sue and Mark's social compatibility between each other. Sue has 115 IQ and 110 EQ while Mark has 117 IQ and 101 EQ. Let's calculate!

Sue: 115/225 - 110/225 = .022

Mark: 117/218 - 101/218 = .074

So Sue has an IEQ of .022 and Mark has an IEQ of .074, wait a minute. That means Mark is more sociable than Sue, what gives? Sue has 9 points more than Mark and their intelligence is almost equal, what happened? By just using the calculation of IEQ, you just can't say oh Mark is more sociable than Sue. This is the second step of the equation, we have to see the proportion of that in relation to their IEQ. For this we need to find the relation between two or more people.

IQ + EQ OF 2+ PEOPLE

p1 +p2 = P(of p1 and p2) - 100% = q

if result = q then,

p1 - q = x1, p2 - q = x2

With this I tried to find the values of X within a proportion, let's calculate Sue and Marks IEQs.

 .022 + .074 = .096 - 100% or 1 = .096 - 1 = .904

q = .904 then,

Sue: .022 - .904 = .684

Mark: .074 - .904 = .83

Now it looks like it makes sense, both Sue and Mark are closer to the base of 1. The proportions itself however are still too high, so I made the next step.

X1 - X2 = | SQRT X |

.684 - .83 = -0.146 = |SQRT -.146| = .382 

Now it looks better. With a base of 1 Sue and Mark has social compatibility of .382. This is seen as positive because 1 > .38 > 0 and thus they are seen as compatible within their social circle. This can only be done through people who are friends and not strangers. If this is done with strangers it would produce results of hilarity only found between Peter Griffin and Marge Simpson. It's just not going to work well, which is why I think it fails in that sense. Let's say Sue and Mark has that compatibility that is seen as above average but they are not dating nor live together. How so? The variables are endless: different interests, grew up together, dated before, live in different places, issues with work schedule, hygiene, eating habits, attraction, married to other people, etc. These are endless. This is the bs I came up with and I in no other way claim this to be fact.

This is a challenge I took and the equation I cam up with. So what does the IEQ have to do with it? Simple, in society, we see that the default person must be both smart enough and emotional enough to succeed in life. This isn't always the case. You can be the smartest person on the planet but when it comes to dealing with people, you can be people shy or only care for others who share your intelligence or interests. I am guilty of that but I do not claim as smart, I know enough and am interested in learning new things. I guess there will be a part 2 if I get a request to take up another challenge.