My daughter, who I think might be moderately gifted but she was never tested, is a former cheerleader, is very conscientious and definitely an extrovert. She was told recently that she was one of three employees being considered for an operations manager position at the company where she works. Only three out of 350 people are being considered for this job.
While she was making bad grades for not turning in work in high school because she was socializing too much, she learned enough that she made a higher score on the company's tests than people with marketing degrees. It is looking to me like that higher social ability is more important than the higher IQ at least in some jobs.
