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The second sentence here contains a slight of hand. Just because IQ doesn't correlate with success, doesn't mean that social intelligence drives success. It could be something else altogether, like conscientiousness or physical attractiveness.
It's by definition, if you define social intelligence as "personal skills not measured by IQ that correlate with career success". I haven't seen this definition explicitly, but that's what you get when you choose career success as your metric and factor out IQ.
I'm just claiming that "social intelligence" is loaded terminology if you haven't yet demonstrated that the things which we normally think of as "social intelligence" (courage in asking for raises, for example) actually are the main driver of career success modulo IQ. If we did a study and it turned out that most career success was driven by physical attractiveness, then your definition of "social intelligence" would still be logically valid, but it would be awful terminology.
Good point.