Thursday, January 3, 2019

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson on Femsplainers

Canadian clinical psychologist and professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson was a guest on Femsplainers with Christina Hoff Sommers and Danielle Crittenden. The podcast was hosted live on December 13, 2018 at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Dr. Peterson and the shows hosts heartily discuss his own life and work as well as "the secrets of a long marriage, the problems with dating apps, how to handle a belligerent toddler, and the motivation of [his] radical feminist critics."

One piece of research I have heard Dr. Peterson mention before that I find particular intriguing is the difference between the male and female orientation to things vs. people. According to Dr. Peterson there is one standard deviation difference between the genders. For example, a man would have to be in the 85th percentile of men to have the same interest in people as the 50th percentile of woman. And likewise, a woman would have to be in the 85th percentile of women to have the same interest in things as the 50th percentile of men. The details are at minute 33:30.

Dr. Peterson, of course, has additional research and stories to share.


More articles:
Stanford Medicine: Two minds: The cognitive differences between men and women

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