People tend to tell me I have a high EQ, and I agree it’s hard to measure.

For fun I recently completed a test where they just show eyes and you have to match their emotional state from a list (someone asked me to try this). I got nearly 100% when the average was 60^ or so.

Thought it was an interesting approach to one aspect of EQ.

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pxc 3 days ago | parent [-]

The EQ test I took had a component that was questions like this.

I'm not sure how meaningful it is for me given that I've been visually impaired my whole life. Nowadays, I can rarely see the eyes of strangers.

But I did kinda hate questions like this, found them unpleasant to think through. I scored normal on the overall EQ test, but didn't do as well on the portion related to reading eyes or faces.

It's interesting to imagine being able to intuitively breeze through a test like that, as well as how much information or precision is missing from my perceptual world!

I wonder how the eye test might or might not correlate with a similar test centered on voices. I feel like I can interpret voices much more easily. Maybe I'd do a little better there?

	▲	mensetmanusman 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		They said people like me have a strong cringe response, which I found to be true - it can be vocal response indicated, but definitely a combination of verbal and physical cues. E.g. When fellow engineers start veering far left field in long rambling responses to marketing and business leaders I want to disappear feeling embarrassed for the engineer not realizing what is happening.