Being intelligent and being able to read people are close to separate skills: a meta-analysis put the correlation between measured intelligence and interpersonal accuracy at about 0.19, and a well-known reading-the-eyes test found no link to IQ at all

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     Being intelligent and being able to read people are close to separate skills: a meta-analysis put the correlation between measured intelligence and interpersonal accuracy at about 0.19, and a well-known reading-the-eyes test found no link to IQ at all

     The smartest people in the room aren't necessarily the best at reading it—intelligence and interpersonal accuracy are nearly unrelated skills, upending a persistent myth about how the mind works.