AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
245. The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality | Glenn Loury
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Psychologist, I'm Not a Psychologist, but I'll Bet You're Wrong
There is an ability or aptitude that manifests itself in the solution to these abstract kinds of cognitive problems. We're going to call it g, and we're going to measure it by the confluence of a person's performance across a range of different kinds of test ofsome factor. You can take any set of a hundred random questions that require abstraction to solve, and you'll pull out something that will be correlated with g if you average the scores at about point seven or point eight. But why brought that up? Because it's kind of weird to see that there is this cognitive ability that does allow for prediction of the future that is associated, reasonably strongly statistically, with long term, say
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode