Social Intelligence and IQ

INTELLECTUAL giftedness is too often ascribed only to individuals who obtain superior scores on IQ tests. It is the purpose of this paper to point out that the term giftedness may be used to describe individuals with special aptitudes, like creative thinking and so-cial intelligence, who are not necessarily superior in the verbal skills measured by most IQ tests. There is some controversy today about the relationship between IQ and special abilities. McNemar (1964), for example, states that currently existing special-aptitude tests correlate so highly with measures of IQ that little information is gained by consider-ing non-IQ tests. On the other hand, there is evidence that tests of special aptitudes make significant and unique contributions to the prediction of practical criteria (Guilford, Hoepfner, and Peter-sen, 1965). IQ tests have long been used to predict the restricted criterion