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328. Jordan Peterson's Psychological Tools | Dr. Daniel Higgins & Dr. Robert O. Pihl

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Tilt Your Selection - The 80-20 Rule

In your PhD thesis, you looked at the economic benefits of using IQ tests to select employees. You found that a tiny minority of extremely high performers produce almost all the economic outcome of a given endeavor. And so what that means is if you can tilt your selection methods towards the upper end, even a small amount, and thereby increase the number of extremely top performers in your organization, the economic payoff to that is unbelievably dramatic.

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