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Men and Women Are Not the Same – Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson Nation1:00

Transcription

There's only two reasons that men and women differ.

One is cultural and the other is biological. And if you minimize the cultural differences, you maximize the biological differences.

So I know everyone's shocked when they hear this. This isn't shocking news. People have known this in the scientific community for at least 25 years.

And it's been replicated in the last month three times in three separate samples, including in Science, which is the world's greatest scientific magazine by a large margin. And it isn't a small effect, it's a huge effect.

So for example, on average men are more interested in things and women are more interested in people. And that's actually the biggest difference we know of psychologically between men and women.

So you imagine that in order to become an engineer, look obviously not everyone becomes an engineer. You have to have a particular temperamental proclivity to become an engineer. You have to be extraordinarily interested in things rather than people. Well, most of those people are men. And if you want to become a nurse, well then you have to be much more interested in people than you are in things. And most of those people are