The world's first scientific measure of Emotional Intelligence?? Says who?
One day I found this claim about Reuven Bar-On's EQi test, which he and his marketing agents, MHS, claim is a test of emotional intelligence. This claim happens to be from www.eqiq.nl in Holland, but there are many more like it.
The World's First Scientific Measure of Emotional Intelligence
Based on 19 years of research by Dr. Reuven Bar-On and tested on over 120.000 individuals worldwide, the BarOn EQ-i™ is the first scientifically developed and validated measure of emotional intelligence. It measures one's ability to deal with daily environmental demands and pressures. A growing body of research suggests that emotional intelligence is a key determinant of success in life. (source)
Then I did a search in Google on the words "The world's first scientific measure of Emotional Intelligence".
Below are some of the results I got. If someone has time they might write to all these cites and ask them where they got their information. In other words, who says that the EQi is the " world's first scientific measure of Emotional Intelligence", except those making money from it?!
(I need to also do a search on "first scientifically developed and validated measure of emotional intelligence" since I suspect these words are also often used in marketing claims.)
Google Results on searching "The world's first scientific measure of emotional intelligence"
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