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[Rerun] Jordan Peterson on Wonder, Creativity, and the Personality of Political Correctness

The Psychology Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Compassion and Social Science?

i looked at a figure the other day of the overlap of the distribution in compassion and there is in the general population. We're not talking about, like, it's a totally different planet, you know, 70 % overlap. Well, this is something that people really don't understand, and social scientists don't understand it well either, although we should. It's a standard preto distribution, relatively small differences at the average level, and then walloping differences at the extreme. And then it's the differences at theextreme that determine behavior. So let's say to be an engineer, while you have to have a high e ce and you have to be conscientious, but then you have

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