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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I'd take the same position, but I've seen far too many exceptions. Does being mute automatically make you not intelligent? You can't speak "appropriately" or even "inappropriately" for that matter. What about Bill Gates? He supposedly has Asperger's Syndrome -- a dehabilitating social "disorder," but I'd be hard pressed to call him stupid too, considering his amassed wealth. Stephan Hawkings? The brilliant quadrapelegic behind string theory? His social "ability" is about the level of a 6 year old. With so many exceptions to this rule, wouldn't it be safer to consider intelligence based on content rather than execution?
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I would never suggest that social aptitude and general intelligence are perfectly correlated. Few psychological variables are. There will always be individual differences. However, I do think that there is a significant relationship between social aptitude and intelligence. (Even accounting for individual cases like Stephen Hawkings or conditions like Asperger's Syndrome).