2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I

In this lecture, I talk about Big Five trait openness to experience, which is the dimension composed of an amalgam of creativity and intelligence. I also discuss IQ: how it is measured, what it means, how powerfully it predicts long-term life success, as well as the highly skewed Pareto distribution of creative production.

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[thepeter]

after enough of these i started talking like Jordan. it's contagious.

[grayfamily]

Introverted people spend a lot of time with their own thoughts, playing by themselves, creating stories in their minds. It's no wonder they like fantasy and gaming. They get to experience adventure without risk and without exhausting themselves by dealing with the expectations and alternative plans of other people who they might offend.

[rubencrisitano]

I am a high-school dropout,


Education where I live is sub-par to say it lightly, I wasn´t learning anything that could be usefull for later life plus I didn´t really want to commit to a certain career and feel remorse if it wasn´t what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so I started working in Hospitality.


I am now 23, still working in hospitality while self educating myself with your lectures, book recommendations (i.e just finished Crime and Punishment)
and some separate online courses such as Coursera.
Thanks to technology I am having the education which I could of never had dreamed of.

I really admire your carefulness with your words, I have a big trouble of putting my thoughts in to words (I know it´s due to a lack of learning and practice) so I will be writing your style essays as you have mentioned on your website.
You make everything so entertaining by your thorough research, hopefully your success on Youtube and Podcasts will encourage more professors of big universities to put up their work too.


Thank you Peterson, thank you for making high class education available for everyone.

[polobreak]

47:57 Concepts of intelligence
1:04:00 measure of IQ
1:11:50 IQ stratum
1:23:00 Job suitability, crystallize vs fluid

[jacobeberhardt]

I'd like to thank Kathy Newman for catapulting this wonderful man into celebrity status so that I can watch his lectures for free. Its really a service that her abhorance provides.

[ArtyGoat]

Every morning “ roughly speaking” I watch Jorden Peterson lectures. Thank god for this man. He is saving lives globally... worst case making lives better and that’s better that 99% of the rest of the world can say... including the media

[MrGorobu]

HOW IS THIS FREE?! Thank you Dr Peterson!

[magnusparvus]

Peterson: "Mathematicians and Physics professors are at the top scale of intelligence in universities..."

"I'd like to tell you who are at the other end but I won't... "

Clever put down...

[JacquelynNewmandivine]

My mom is Kathy Newman…
When I clicked on his “Cathy Newman” interview I was hooked. Thank you for educating the world Dr.P for

[charly.chavez]

"Poverty does not cause crime, relative poverty causes crime"

[mda]

Many thanks to the leftist idealogues in Toronto for bringing Jordan Peterson to our attention. Otherwise I would not have sat through a university lecture on psychology and gained certain abstract insights from many parts of it.

[camaples]

Damned fine lecture

"The reason that we develop the capacity to abstract is so that our stupid ideas die instead of us."

J.P. on Karl Popper

[kwakekamdivasi]

I just listen to this guy, and then boom! Something in me has changed.

[johnoswald]

The information this man is imparting completely free is astounding. Thank you Dr Peterson, you truly are an absolute gem of humanity.

[harryseth]

1:16:58 - "psychologists HATE this! They won't admit it exists" <-- JP introducing click-bait into his lecture material

[donpauldtrm]

it took just 23 seconds into the video before he says "roughly speaking" :-D

[Hexanitrobenzene]

Outline of this lecture:
0:45 Stability and plasticity.
5:54 A little about IQ tests.
7:18 Dealing with the complexity of the world. Levels of abstraction.
13:48 Temple Grandin, very functional autistic person.
18:45 Perception is structured by the goals.
21:09 Abstraction and communication.
22:50 Representing action patterns abstractly.
24:10 Motivations for the 5 dimensions. Value systems.
26:47 Roots of traits in biology.
29:52 Conscientiousness depends on the perception of stability.
32:25 As women's IQ increases, probability of remaining without a mate also increases.
36:05 Why think ? So that our ideas die instead of us. [ K. Popper ]
39:20 Why fiction is interesting ?
39:55 Reading fiction improves interpersonal understanding.
40:38 It's useful to think about intelligence as abstracted action.
41:49 Intellectual discussion about cup :)
44:42 Cocaine and hyper-learning.
47:55 Cognitive ability
50:29 Various kinds of intelligence.
53:38 What does it mean to have a different form of intelligence ? Empirical approach.
1:00:11 Turns out that the idea of different intelligences is false.
1:01:20 Statistical implementation of tests and analysis of data
1:06:19 Smarter people have lower reaction time ?
1:07:50 What correlation coefficient is big ?
1:10:04 Relative poverty causes crime.
1:12:55 Book: John Carroll "Human Cognitive Abilities: A survey of factor-analytic studies"
1:15:11 The lower the IQ, the higher the correlation between sub-factors.
1:17:00 IQ and egalitarianism
1:18:58 Breastfeeding raises IQ
1:19:18 Practical definition of intelligence
1:19:55 IQ is not a measure of people's intrinsic worth
1:23:04 Practical significance of these facts
1:25:35 A few examples of test questions
1:30:26 Crystallized vs fluid intelligence
1:31:17 Job complexity and IQ
1:33:01 Smartest people in universities
1:34:44 Problem with low IQ people. Complexification of society. Automation.
1:38:25 One of the causes of opioid crisis.
1:39:20 Impact of AI on society
1:40:37 Is it possible to train intelligence ?
1:45:02 Learning new languages

[Ehsanesque]

It's amazing how Jordan communicates with his students. He is moving all over the class, moving all parts of body, giving distinct expression to embody what he is saying. Sad I never had a teacher like this in my classroom.

[JimC]

This lecture was mind-expanding! The explanation of how intelligence has been quantified was fantastic! I'm 66, and I wish I'd heard this information when I was a lot younger.

[adhithyasodhi]

I've watched [more than] enough of these lectures now to see the brilliance in Dr Peterson's ability to clearly communicate complex ideas - even if it [me] takes 3