SAT scores have been criticized as not good predictors of college success (http://www.fairtest.org/sat-i-faulty-in ... ge-success), though their use may make administrators happy. And I have known many Mensa members who were not particularly successful when measured by income or awards. Hell, I have never been motivated by money beyond what was necessary to supply my basic needs. Or to quote Erasmus, "When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." (Well, there is my wife's needs...)

As for ignorance being bliss, to quote H.L. Mencken, "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier." An observation that might be updated by a reference to Fox News.

Edit: limited internal quoting!

I carefully avoided subjective measures like "happiness" or "contentment" because they are very difficult to meaningfully measure, and stuck to precise items such as income, status and longevity. In that regard, IQ is, according to my research anyway, better correlated with success than any other single measure. I'm not sure how you measure EQ, or if there is a widely agreed upon way of testing it, but if there is, I don't expect it will be as well-correlated with success (as per my definition above) as IQ. The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence does describe some measures, but also notes its limited predictive power.

No real disagreement on some of the other points, e.g. I agree that that it usually takes a lot more than IQ to be successful, and that IQ is no guarantee of happiness, and that success does not necessarily equal happiness.

I also found this article, which is of some relevant interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits