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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I genuinely don’t understand how Peterson has a PhD. I’ve listened to his lectures and they are just pointless garbage. He squints at Jung, comes up with this manicheanism where men = order women = disorder and just verbal diarrheas from there.

I’ve only had a little formal education in psychology, but enough that people have paid me to teach it, and I don’t understand how anyone in the field could be impressed.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ben Carson is one of the best brain surgeons in the world. Dr Oz was considered the best heart surgeon in the world.

Expertise and education do not equal intelligence.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My dad is a literal rocket scientist with an illustrious career at NASA navigating satellites and space probes. University of Missouri, but CalTech / MIT material math wizard.

He's full MAGA now. The scary part is now he regurgitates FOX News sound bites he'd disagree with twenty years ago.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're cutting some of that stuff at NASA. Does he work for the ScaN folks? That's LEGS, HDTN, CSP, NEO, TDRSS, NEN, DSN, etc. I just wonder if people who are getting their jobs cut are still gung ho for Trump.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Oh he's retired now. He worked on CloudSat (and just retired it; it served a long time to scan storms and hurricanes even after it started malfunctioning). He also worked on OCO (Orbital Carbon Observatory), and its successor, but the faring on the rocket failed to disconnect both times and it fell into the South Atlantic. Launch vehicles don't come with a warranty, I learned.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Slept his way though college?

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jorge Hirsch, the creator of the h-index asserts that a “successful scientist” will have an h-index of 20 after 20 years; an “outstanding scientist” will have an index of 40 after 20 years; and a “truly unique individual” will have an index of 60 after 20 years or 90 after 30 years. Jordan Peterson has an h-index of 57.

His academic work had been cited well over 10,000 times before he became a publicly-known figure in 2016.

He obviously isn't a quack in the field of psychology, by any objective measure.

[–] FartVentriloquist69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes exactly, there is more nuance to a person than just right and wrong