28- Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau Q&A at Seattle Conference - Oct. 2017
The Symbolic World
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How to Save a Child's Life
There were about five outliers. Now there were well over five standard deviations from the others. And lo and behold, when I went and got out the notes of these outliers, they were the children who died later. That led to an intuition about how you might treat that and it worked. We first had microscopic looks at bacteria in the late what's 1600s, early 1700s. Yet we didn't get to microbes in medicine until 1860. Why did we spend 150 years not doing anything about it? Because doctors made money so why would they change it? The world doesn't work in this cold, predictive way. There's all sorts of things going on that you need to be
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