--- title: New Smartphone App MEIT Tests Your Emotional Intelligence description: MEIT is an app that evaluates users' emotional intelligence scores, comparing them to the average in different countries. canonical: https://time.com/37011/this-app-will-tell-you-how-emotionally-intelligent-you-are/ author: Kyle Chayka article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T15:35:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:09.537Z og:title: This App Will Tell You How Emotionally Intelligent You Are og:description: Should there be an empathy requirement for the Internet? og:url: https://time.com/37011/this-app-will-tell-you-how-emotionally-intelligent-you-are/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1165a95994d82f9/69868713169ab0a1e0278699/time_angry.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: time_angry og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This App Will Tell You How Emotionally Intelligent You Are twitter:description: Should there be an empathy requirement for the Internet? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1165a95994d82f9/69868713169ab0a1e0278699/time_angry.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This App Will Tell You How Emotionally Intelligent You Are by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Mar 25, 2014 3:35 PM UTC  Is this child angry, or just pretending? Is this child angry, or just pretending?Michael Bentley—Flickr by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Mar 25, 2014 3:35 PM UTC With its hives of trolls and spammers, the Internet lacks a little, shall we say, empathy. But a new app will help us find out once and for all just how good we are at putting ourselves in other people’s shoes. [MEIT](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meit-emotional-intelligence/id647313766?mt=8) (mobile emotional intelligence test) is an app that performs an emotional intelligence test, evaluating how good we are at perceiving how others are feeling. Open the app, and it’ll ask you to rate the emotions expressed by a series of human faces in categories like anger, happiness, fear, and disgust. Then, place emotions on a grid that graphs feelings for their “pleasure” and “activation.” Finally, assign the correct emotional label to different faces. Other tests include “understanding” and “managing,” which are quizzes on how best to handle emotional situations. If you end up with over 90 points, then congratulations! You are an empathetic human being. Unfortunately, the average score in the U.S. right now is 89\. (This writer squeaked by with a 95.) MEIT could fix the web as we know it. Just imagine having to take an emotional intelligence test before posting on Reddit or writing a YouTube comment. Captchas replaced with distraught faces. The world would be a better place! 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