Could IQ and EQ be mutually exclusive?

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This article seems to suggest so: 6 Surprising Downsides Of Being Extremely Intelligent.

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/6-surpr ... telligent/
Link to page 1 of the article

Yes, all the people with higher IQs. on this forum's EQs. Are low mine is 13. Aspie utah the only other one to post both information. Is 145 and 7

No, I think very few things are really mutually exclusive. Maybe you mean that there's a negative correlation between them? If that's what you mean, I don't know. I would tend to think both really high and low IQs are associated with low EQs. But I really don't know.

And Pieplup, people with autism are probably likely to have lower EQs, since we have trouble understanding emotions. So data from this forum probably couldn't prove anything.

Autistics as a group are more likely to have a disparity of higher IQ to EQ, so yeah - it's a terrible place to look for norms across neurotypes.

I've seen arguments along those lines before and usually they're made by people with low EQs and often autistics. As though we need to find something that NTs have. As it happens, I believe most people have relatively equal EQs and IQs, hence why our EQ-IQ disparity is an indicator of our difficulties.