Sociability and Human Intelligence
Crystal Phillips
Wake Technical Community College

Sociability and Human Intelligence
Introduction
Recently, human intelligence has been a subject that frequented the realms of sociology. It has hugely been praised as the most effective predictor of academic excellence and sociability (Bailey, 1996). Although studies have claimed that human intelligence is a predictor of success in academics, only a few have attempted to confirm these assertions. In the study, the relations between emotional intelligence, age and sociability will be tested. Similarly, academic performance will be measured. Studies have established that emotional intelligence is positively correlated with sociability, although it is not significantly correlated to age. Another notable finding is that academic performance is closely related to human intelligence (Kurzweil, 1999). Studies suggest the date of birth does not in any way have an impact on human intelligence with many of these studies contracting.? Some ofWith the findings that consider smaller children are less smart than the older ones. New findings from an expanded study sample have established key flaws in previous research (Kurzweil, 1999). Many of these studies compared siblings from different families, and thus, their findings concerned the disparity between small and large families, not the disparity between siblings. This study seeks to establish whether older children are smarter and more social than younger children or siblings. All siblings in this study were taken through an intelligence test, which measured their skills in reading, mathematics, reading comprehension and recognition. The data set will allow comparison of children within families to establish whether the eldest in the family performed better than the younger siblings. Only a few