>>11260203It's real, although current attempts to measure it attempting to pass themselves off as some kind of scientific scoring system (EQ) are exercises in sophistry and should be ignored. This is one of those things you only really get to know through experience, and maybe quality literature.
It's also mediated by age, or more specifically, the complete development of the prefrontal cortex, which occurs especially late in life for men (about 26 years of age). It's a large part of the reason young adults have relatively temporally impaired judgment even though they otherwise have more raw cognitive horsepower at that time than they ever will again.
