Pilots have lower emotional IQ

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Who would have thought that?

”Comparisons on global trait EI and the four trait EI factors revealed significant differences, with pilots scoring consistently lower than their matched counterparts in global trait EI, Well-being, Emotionality, and Sociability, but not Self-control.”

Trait emotional intelligence in American pilots - Scientific Reports

There is a dearth of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) research within an aviation context. Using the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue), the present study investigated potential trait EI differences between pilots and general population controls in the United States. The...

www.nature.com

 

[Ron Wanttaja]

No we don't! No we don't! You're just mean!

Ron Wanttaja

 

[MuseChaser]

"Emotional Intelligence" has always struck me as similar to "jumbo shrimp" or "approximately accurate." Alone, each word/quality has a place and is valued. When paired, they become meaningless.

 

[rotorwrench]

Who would have thought that?

Mechanics have been saying this for years, especially right after we give a pilot the bill for services rendered. Get a grip man.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

"Emotional Intelligence" has always struck me as similar to "jumbo shrimp" or "approximately accurate." Alone, each word/quality has a place and is valued. When paired, they become meaningless.

Probably not the best terminology. They are measuring some traits about emotional reactivity, but why call it intelligence?

I suspect it was an attempt to sort of legitimize those emotional traits and get them more recognition.

I suppose the original papers using that term may discuss this.

 

[Bob Noel]

"There is a dearth of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) research within an aviation context."

LOL

If that was the only "problem" in this world...

 

[tawood]

"Emotional Intelligence" has always struck me as similar to "jumbo shrimp" or "approximately accurate." Alone, each word/quality has a place and is valued. When paired, they become meaningless.

"Military Intelligence", "near miss", "pretty ugly", "cheap airplane"...the list goes on.

 

[Rush]

Making decisions based on objective reality instead of your fee fees sounds like a good thing to me. But of course more research is needed, we need to keep finding things to do and reasons for grant money for all these PhDs. No offense to those of you with PhDs.

 

[Winthrop]

I had to look up emotional intelligence, but it sounds a bit vague still. The study notes " forty-four pilots who volunteered to participate were primarily male (93%.)" If you took 44 men who were not pilots would you see this similar dearth of putative emotional intelligence? If you took 44 female pilots what would you see? The fact Nature accepted this just proves the publication does not warrant its reputation as a serious journal
anymore.

 

[MuseChaser]

My sister was an "Emotional Intelligence Life Coach" as one of her many unsuccessful forays into gainful employment. Hence my jaded opinion of the term. Both terms actually... I'm skeptical of "life coach" too.

 

[Rush]

My sister was an "Emotional Intelligence Life Coach" as one of her many unsuccessful forays into gainful employment. Hence my jaded opinion of the term. Both terms actually... I'm skeptical of "life coach" too.

There’s a YouTube creator I listen to that absolutely excoriates life coach and other forms of therapists as well as just about all liberal arts majors that result in jobs that don’t literally produce food, shelter and energy needed to sustain all of us. He’s a real Asshole. I love listening to him tear new ones for people with a liberal arts major, lots of student debt, expecting someone else to pay it off for them, and living in mom’s basement. Not judging, I myself wasted six years getting a double major in worthless liberal arts before I saw the light and went for a STEM degree. At least I paid off my $7,000 student debt myself, with my engineering job.