• andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 days ago

    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.

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      10 days ago

      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.

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      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.