Where are you seeing discomfort in this thread?<p>&gt;We nerds (and I am among this bunch) don&#x27;t really like the fact that popularity, &quot;emotional IQ&quot;, and social influence are not quantifiable, but we are judged on them, anyway.<p>It&#x27;s not exactly that such things are not quantifiable, but that PG is unable to express what is being judged other than in the same few, undefined words, at least in this essay. An example of such judgement is never given, it is only asserted that correct judgement can be dispensed by Jessica. That is a magic oracle. No basis is provided for the judgement (other than its source), only the judgement itself.<p>Now, as others have pointed out, I doubt this is exactly how it happens. Most likely Jessica brings to light some contradiction, however, the essay doesn&#x27;t go into what those contradictions have been, or might be. The essay really only provides the view that the contradictions are blessed and therefore automatically accepted.<p>The concern here is that PG is propagating concepts like &quot;character&quot;, &quot;Social Radar&quot;, etc., without being able to define what they are. Others may try to replicate this and start their own cargo cult, which has applied its own secret definition of those words, in order to work the magic sauce.<p>What is so hard about the concept&#x2F;metric being applied here that it can&#x27;t be put into words?