What the heck is "emotional intellect" 
There is this theory, that next to IQ, there is AQ and and EQ, where EQ is emotional intelligence.
It has been disproven as pseudoscience as far as I understand, made up by journalists to sell books.
I think "emotional intelligence" is a misnomer anyway. Emotions and intelligence are pretty much orthogonal features of our brain. Sure there can be feedback loops between the two, but still, the term is pretty bad.
What, I think, they usually mean by that is more like "social intelligence". Which is not quite the same thing, even if emotions are more involved when it comes to social interactions.
The other problem is naming this a "quotient" - the purpose of IQ, however flawed it may be, is quantifying intellectual abilities. Quantifying your social abilities is a lot harder, if impossible.
One fun anecdote with the Big Bang Theory sitcom is that from what I heard, its authors have repeatedly denied the fact that they explicitely made the Sheldon character with an Asperger's syndrome (probably they denied it to avoid being accused of poking fun at it), while it was obvious from the start that the character was portraying, in a nearly textbook (and caricatural) fashion, all known characteristics of Aspeger's.
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