Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions

Bite-sized Philosophy · 245.9K views · 2017-03-12 · 5:15

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Overview

A short clip of Jordan Peterson explaining Pareto distributions, using Soviet farm collectivization and the resulting famine as context. It also covers how outcomes concentrate in a few people.

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HN points to it for an accessible explanation of why wealth and creative output are so unevenly distributed.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2021

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Psychology & human behavior Labor, work & inequality Probability & game theory

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Aditya_Garg · 2021-05 · Strong recommendation
This is expected and falls under the Pareto distribution. All human creative endeavors follow this distribution (movies/ tv shows/ music) at different scales. Even some weird ones like most commonly used words follow this. Jordan Peterson has an excellent lecture on describing this phenomenon. [VIDEO]
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macleod2486 · 2017-07 · Recommendation
What she didn't realize what she ended up demonstrating was the reality of pareto distributions. Dr. Jordan Peterson does a good detailing of this phenomenon. [VIDEO]
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the_grue · 2018-12 · Reference
Actually, the poverty level doesn't continue to rise, it's been stable around 13.5% for the last 30 years. The reason why it stays that way instead of shrinking is probably related to the Pareto distribution problem. [VIDEO]
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