"When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success." - That's So CAJ!

How accurate this is or isn't I can't say. I do wonder if you can have a negative score (based on the ideas in the article). - That's So CAJ!