David Wechsler defined intelligence as " the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposely, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment", however the issue of intelligence has always managed to raise many debates and arguments within psychology. The very nature of intelligence makes it extremely difficult to define in any exact way. "For many years the study of intelligence focused mainly on the adaptive use of cognition, the publication of …
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…have argued "that by itself emotional intelligence probably is not a strong predictor of job performance. Rather it provides a bedrock for competencies that are" (Cherniss 2000). It is also hard to prove that tests which claim to measure emotional intelligence are actually accurate, or give a good insight into that particular persons emotional characteristics, even by combining emotional intelligence and IQ tests we still may not have all the information needed to make reliable predictions.