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Men & Women - success findings

Women on average have better social skills to get a job, but men are more likely to move out of dead-end positions. Neither sex may have a long-term success advantage.

Males  scored higher in ambition than did the females (101 vs 97)

An individual's work success likely develops from:

1/3 IQ,

1/3 social skills (SQ), 

and 1/3 ambition.

In 2500 SQ surveys 

females scored an average of 103 vs 96 for males.

 

The findings at the left come from research by SQ developer Sloan and from many others. A summary of what is currently known about the factors leading to success in the workplace is at http://social-quotient.info/sq.4mg.com/SuccessSQ-EI.htm

High school teachers find that the SQ quizzes give a more reliable measure of a student's social skills than any other method.  There is data and many reasons for this finding. 

Very little racial bias in Social Quotient

 

Unlike the above difference in scores between men and women in SQ, students of varying skin colors show little difference in results.  A comparison of Social Quotient scores to the self-rated skin colors of students showed that darker skinned males were slightly preferred, while lighter skinned females were slightly preferred.  But those preferences were much less important

overall than qualities like General Happiness and Upbeat, Positive Attitude.

See http://social-quotient.info/sq.4mg.com/traits_2437.htm for the data on the relative importance of such traits.

Learn how to increase your SQ score

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from Vanessa Van Edward's new book “CAPTIVATE” page 264:

 

Stanford researcher Van Sloan studied the social skills of 2,437 high school students across counties in Northern California.  He wanted to know which social skills predicted likability as measured by their peers.  First – and not all that unexpectedly – he found that likable students tended to be more optimistic and upbeat, and had higher self-reported levels of general happiness. But then the results got a bit more interesting. He found that the most likable students also liked the most other people.

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Vanessa notes in May 2017 that 

  • In addition to hitting the WSJ bestseller list, Captivate has been named the #1 New Release and #1 Bestseller in Popular Social Psychology & Interactions on Amazon!

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Click for Vanessa's findings on Career Benefits of Good People Skills

 


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