“Common sense observations of human behavior support a similar dissociation in reasoning abilities which cuts in both directions. We all know persons who are exceedingly clever in their social navigation, who have an unerring sense of how to seek advantage for themselves and fot their group, but who can be remarkably inept when trusted with nonpersonal, nonsocial problem. The reverse condition is just dramatic: We all know creative scientists and artists whose social sense is a disgrace, and who regulary harm themselves abd others with their behavior. The absent-minded professor is the benign variety of the latter type. At work, in these different personality styles, are the presence or absence of what Howard Gardner has called, ‘social intelligence,’ or the presence or absence of one or the other of his multiple intelligences such as the ‘mathematical.’”
