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points by austin-cheney 14 hours ago | 0 comments
Maybe... maybe Pyron from the article is a toxic expert. Its hard to say because the article is entirely one sided.

A problem that is encountered frequently among people with exceptionally low social intelligence is the inability to separate agreeability from social intelligence. Those concepts are completely unrelated.

Agreeability is the need to please others and to a lesser extent seek reciprocity for kindness. Kindness lives here. This is completely and utterly unrelated to social intelligence and when signals are confused acts in opposition to social intelligence.

Social intelligence is a perceptual skill. It is the ability to both introspect and perceive the motivations of others. You can have exceptionally high social intelligence and still be a cold asshole.

For people with exceptionally low social intelligence they lack the perceptual skills required to both introspect and discern the emotional communication of others. So... they may confuse that with something else, like kindness, where they strive to fill an unfillable gap.

It is fun talking about this with my wife. I am a software developer and software is staffed with males with low social intelligence at a much higher rate than the population at large. My wife works in education and its the same thing there for females.

[–] thaumasiotes 11 hours ago
> I am a software developer and software is staffed with males with low social intelligence at a much higher rate than the population at large. My wife works in education and its the same thing there for females.

Female teachers are disproportionately unable to perceive the emotional communication of others?

[–] phyzome 11 hours ago
Take a(nother) look at the post he linked to. Comments were broken previously, but they're showing up now.

Pyon indeed seems like a complete asshat.

[–] IshKebab 12 hours ago
Yeah I think the article would have more weight if he posted the actual discussion, because it's linked elsewhere here and it very clearly shows that Pyon is a nitpicking arsehole.
[–] antonvs 13 hours ago
I'm surprised that females in education would have a higher rate of low social intelligence. I might have expected the opposite. Say more?
[–] austin-cheney 11 hours ago
There is a stereotype that males in software are more inclined to be on the ASD spectrum. According to my wife, and all her coworkers that I have spoken to, education lives up to that stereotype in spades. It is likely a gravity for people on the spectrum because it is a highly structured environment and if you are in elementary education your primary audience will never question the insanity.

BTW, there is a common assumption about the correlation between autism and low social intelligence. While that may or may not be true more often than not it is not universally correlated.