IQ or intelligence quotient that deals with understanding information

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IQ or intelligence quotient that deals with understanding information and EQ or emotional quotient that deals with understanding emotions are both key in assuring a person's happiness and ability to succeed. Although people with a high IQ are exceptionally brilliant at understanding information, when it comes to social interaction they usually have to work hard to understand others and to make themselves understood. Thus, a person with a high EQ is more likely to be happy and successful than a person with a high IQ.

What can be inferred from above?

A. People with a high IQ are not aware of the importance of social interactions in determining their happiness and success. 
B. People with a high IQ generally have a very low EQ.
C. IQ and EQ are the only two important factors in determining a person’s happiness and ability to succeed. 
D. A person with a low EQ but a high IQ is less likely to be successful than a person with a low IQ and low EQ. 
E. A significant part of understanding people in social interaction does not deal with understanding information.

earnit · Answer

if Option B is your answer then why is it?
If Option B is NOT your answer, then why not?

EIther way option B, anybody could shed some light on it!

aditya8062 · Answer

i selected E in this  :  A significant part of understanding people in social interaction does not deal with understanding information

B cannot be the answer because the premise says:  Although people with a high IQ are exceptionally brilliant at understanding information, when it comes to social interaction they usually have to work hard to understand others and to make themselves understood ------->that fact that someone with high IQ is having a hard time to understand others does not mean that he has a very low EQ (he can have an average EQ )just as the fact that if a person is having a hard time to understand a logical problem does not mean that he has a very low IQ ;he could have an average IQ

chesstitans · Answer

this question comes from e-gmat

XyLan · Answer

An inference is something which should be   100% right   from the given premises of the argument.

A. People with a high IQ are not aware of the importance of social interactions in determining their happiness and success. 
   Cannot infer that People with a high IQ are NOT aware.  : Out of scope  
B. People with a high IQ generally have a very low EQ.
  Need not be 100% true as the person with high IQ may have average IQ instead of very low IQ  
C. IQ and EQ are the only two important factors in determining a person’s happiness and ability to succeed. 
  There might be other factors also which might play factors in determining a person’s happiness and ability to succeed.   : Out of scope  
D. A person with a low EQ but a high IQ is less likely to be successful than a person with a low IQ and low EQ. 
  The passage compares only people with high IQ and EQ. Nowhere in the passage, the argument compares people with low IQ/EQ. The reverse situation might be either True or False.   : Ambiguity   
E. A significant part of understanding people in social interaction does not deal with understanding information.
  Is in line with the reasoning given in the passage

siddhantvarma · Answer

We're drawing inference, so it's very important to understand exactly what we're told and stick to it.

IQ or intelligence quotient that deals with understanding information and EQ or emotional quotient that deals with understanding emotions are both key in assuring a person's happiness and ability to succeed => IQ : understanding information, EQ : Understanding emotions,  both are key  in assuring a person's happiness and ability to success

Although people with a high IQ are exceptionally brilliant at understanding information, when it comes to social interaction they usually have to work hard to understand others and to make themselves understood => Someone who has high IQ generally struggles with understanding others and making themselves understood (Hmm, do they high IQ people generally have low EQ? Well it  could be true , but it also  could not be true , maybe these high IQ people simply struggle with understanding others and making themselves understood, which maybe a  subset  of understanding emotions)

Thus, a person with a high EQ is more likely to be happy and successful than a person with a high IQ => Here's the argument/conclusion, someone with high EQ is more likely to be happy and successful against someone with a high IQ (we don't know the IQ content of the former and the EQ content of the latter so this is simply based on the fact that people with high IQ struggle in understanding themsleves and others => they're less likely to be happy and successful than those with high EQ)

Alright, let's jump to the answer choices.

What can be inferred from above?

A. People with a high IQ are not aware of the importance of social interactions in determining their happiness and success.
The passage doesn't state anything about high IQ people being aware of the importance of social interactions, not it can be implied from the given info => Eliminate

B. People with a high IQ generally have a very low EQ.
This can be true, my problem with this is, it also quantifies how low EQ can be and we're anyway not sure if that's true. Lack of understanding others can be attributed to a low EQ, but we're not sure. Also very low, hmm, okay let me keep it, but I see some red flags with this one.

C. IQ and EQ are the only two important factors in determining a person’s happiness and ability to succeed.
There could be other factors, we're only talking about IQ and EQ for now, so eliminate this.

D. A person with a low EQ but a high IQ is less likely to be successful than a person with a low IQ and low EQ.
We only know a high EQ is more likely to be successful than high IQ, if anything, this seems wrong because both are needed to be successful and happy and a high IQ > low IQ (EQ is the same, low so it's effect can be negated) => Completely wrong, eliminate

E. A significant part of understanding people in social interaction does not deal with understanding information.
Oh yeah, this is true. The passage does mention that people with high IQ (they can understand information) struggle with understanding people in social interaction, so we're sure their high IQ doesn't help with this aspect at all. Keep E

E is a much better choice than B, eliminate B, our answer is E

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