> Focusing on EQ as a society, would mean that individuals would get better at understanding the said manipulations.
No, it wouldn’t, just as valuing IQ doesn’t mean people get more intelligent.
Society valuing innate traits doesn’t particularly make them more common (indeed, in a society were material success is inversely correlated with fertility, it may do the opposite); what it does is it gives the people with those traits more power and privilege.
For a while. And then the Flynn effect reversed somewhere between 1990-2000. (Not, again, that I agree that our society actually does value IQ more than EQ, but…)
No, it wouldn’t, just as valuing IQ doesn’t mean people get more intelligent.
Society valuing innate traits doesn’t particularly make them more common (indeed, in a society were material success is inversely correlated with fertility, it may do the opposite); what it does is it gives the people with those traits more power and privilege.