Psychopaths (Adult and Otherwise)

61% lol. You all are too nice. Got the same blurb as sarahell though.

48%. But I also did it a week or so ago and got 30-something, so Xmas obviously made me psychotic.

9%, but some of that's just because I'm a wimp.

12%

what are you guys agreeing with? i hope it was just the roller coasters!

"I like rollercoasters, and have no reaction to seeing animals in pain."

24%. Rollercoasters, and fuckups are always someone else's fault.

42%. should I, or more importantly, the people around me be worried?

27%, same answers as ledge

Twitter tells me that every hardcore fashion person who took this test got 70 per cent and they were proud of their scores.

I got 42, but my dad was/sister is a total sociopath, so could have been worse.

18% - I think I must be feeling particularly guilty about causing fuckups today.

Longer test that emil.y posted is slightly more interesting.

You score (1) for primary psychopathy was higher than 0% of people who have taken this test.
You score (3.3) for secondary psychopathy was higher than 81.09% of people who have taken this test.

Primary psychopathy was described as the usual lack of empthay/thrill-seeking etc but secondary was described thusly:

Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspects of psychopathy; rule breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior.

^^^Kind of disregards that there might be other aspects of "rule breaking" and "lack of effort towards socially rewarded behaviour" than just psychopathy? (e.g. rules and rewards which are impossible to follow or attain due to other (societal) pressure?) e.g. if the rule one is breaking is "whites only at the lunch counter" then breaking that rule is not evidence of psychopathy, but its exact opposite, a sense of justice or fairness or indeed empathy?

You score (1.2) for primary psychopathy was higher than 5.51% of people who have taken this test.
You score (2.6) for secondary psychopathy was higher than 54% of people who have taken this test.

Yep - these psychological tests usually make subtle and not-so-subtle accommodations to conservative social conventions.

See, for a moment there I was worried that I was a normal person. Phew!!!

You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 5.51% of people who have taken this test.

You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 71.45% of people who have taken this test.

ILX0rs trending nice but iconoclastic IMO

this is a right load of old bollocks imo

Psychology is 1/2 bollocks, 1/4 science and 1/4 fair guesses, providing 3/4 entertainment.

Curmudgeon test for NV incoming.

oh i know what my curmudgeon rating is don't worry ;-)

i think i really wanted to examine the current vogue for "spot the psychopath" which to the best of my understanding is still pretty freakin contentious amongst the pyschology community but i'm still here in parental limbo and didn't think i had the brainpower to tease that one out

Possibly people are looking for a way to spot someone like Jimmy Savile before they do any actual damage.

psychopathy is a pseudo-scientific theory useful for plugging the holes left by the categorical collapse of evil

Or a concept to help people convince themselves that they're normal? "Of course I think about slashing the tyres of my boss's car, but I wouldn't actually do it, therefore I'm not really a psychopath"

idk if anything it's too inclusionary, not exclusionary "for there is not a just man on earth, that does good, and sins not."

has evil as a concept collapsed? obv not amongst people as a whole but i accept we're not thinking about that strictly. still, isn't evil still ascribed as a descriptor to actions even among people who wd shy away from describing other humans as evil in themselves?

i feel like the idea of psychopathy tries to plug a hole that isn't the shape we think it is

it's just that post determinism, esp in psycho-pharmeceutical world, evil is no longer causal - maybe descriptive - and we still need (catharsis-like) an explanation for evil. if it isn't an evil person then it's a psychopathic mind. maybe.

39% psycho

eg 'how can a wealthy man steal from the widow + orphan?' if before it was due to the evil inclination now it is bc of neuro atypical brain chemistry.

oh yeah i think many people crave explanations - wd bracket off the whole determinism argument, maybe too abstruse for general use - more importantly perhaps many people crave totalizing worldviews - psychopathy, like paedophilia, saves a little bit of hate for the sinner but disguises it as the limits of "treatability"

Would people prefer a simple but incorrect explanation that allowed them to sleep at night, or a complex but as far as possible correct explanation that kept them awake with worry? I suspect that given enough stress and pressure, any one of us could become sociopathic, drawing a line in the sand where everyone else is on the other side and 'fair game' for abuse. On the other hand, there is still a degree of choice: that people choose to behave badly towards others. Or a least it would be nice to believe that, even if it couldn't be proved.

which explanation allows one to sleep better at night?

it's a problem to talk about "people" in that generalized way, i guess, as well as to distinguish between what we want to believe, choose to believe and happen to believe.

i think i choose to not believe in a scorecard approach to anticipating behaviour but that doesn't mean the scorecard mightn't have practical applications, i guess - altho what you do with the knowledge that Person A might commit crimes before they've committed them, well, i'm buggered if i know.

psychopathy, like paedophilia, saves a little bit of hate for the sinner but disguises it as the limits of "treatability"

this sounds about right

12% but I lied my ass off ha ha!

waaay xpost but my blurb was the same as sarahel's and roz

Absolutely stunned to find out that I'm posting to a board filled with borderline psychopaths. Had no idea until this thread

me either! i am the least psychopathic among us if this quiz is to be believed! 3%!!

Manipulative lying is probably second nature to any adult psychopath with an IQ over 85. Seems to me any test for psychopathology would have to be pretty damn clever to disguise the 'socially unacceptable' responses and lure an adult psychopath into the self-revelation.

aimless otm. i scored 56% but it was prob cuz i avoided the scale's extremities. yeah, that's the ticket.

"Oh, lawsy me! I would never dream of doing anything remotely like that!" probably correlates to zero psychopathic tendency, while "as a rational being I try to avoid absolutes, because it is impossible to foresee all the circumstances in advance" probably correlates to some higher percentage of psycho tendencies. Taking candy from a baby.

wtf is this the antebellum south?
who says "Oh, lawsy me! I would never dream of doing anything remotely like that!"

wah i do declare

who says "Oh, lawsy me!...

Psychopaths taking multiple choice tests, obviously.

http://shepherdspiehole.typepad.com/.a/6a0167621b7ded970b019103c4dba5970c-250wi

61% and i went soft tbh

did you say Lawsy me y/n

Never yet

36%

27%

But I cheated obv and my real score is like a million percent

Was King Leopold II a psychopath?

27%

Same here. Popular score this.