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Social Quotient
The term social quotient has occasionally been ascribed various meanings, such as the relationship between social maturity scale and chronological age. More recently social quotient has been given a more specific meaning, calculated by measuring the true value to the species Homo sapiens of what a person or entity creates and consumes. The entity can be a person, a household or even a nation. The true value is subjective, and can include beauty, raising children, as well as valuable products and ideas. Consumption can include destruction.

The equation is "SQ=1+∑P/Cs-∑C/Cs"where ∑P value of all the goodness that the entity causes to be produced, ∑C is the value of all the goodness entity cause to be consumed, and (∑C) in comparison to the average consumption of the similar entities (Cs) over a comparable time scale. The social quotient is additive; that is, we can consider various aspects of a person’s life, determining the production and consumption of each aspect, and add them.

A person who has average consumption and production has a life-time social quotient of unity. A person that has average consumption but no production has a value of zero. People who produce a lot of value have social quotients of greater than one, and elite generators of value may have a social quotient of millions. Equally, people who lead highly destructive lives have a highly negative social quotient.

Examining the social quotient of our society yields many useful insights. The purpose of education should maximize the chances of an individual to reaching elite status with a very high social quotient, and minimize the likelihood of the emergence of individuals with highly negative social quotient. There may be large discrepancies between the monetary profitability of an activity and its social quotient. Finance can carry a high social quotient when it facilitates investment in valuable production, but confers a negative social quotient on making a profit from short term investments that do not contribute to production. Activities (particularly in government) might pay well, but actually impede production of value, generating a mismatched incentive, and contributing to the Gross Domestic Impediment.