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by smurph 4788 days ago
So I got [number], but I don't really know if it's good or bad. There is a percentile but no scale of where the psychopaths begin and end. Pretty pointless.
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Here's Robert Hare, the expert on this stuff:

"We refer to individuals with a very high concentration of these features (perhaps 1% of the general population) as psychopaths" [1]

So there's no clear cutoff, it's not a bimodal distribution, but if you are in the top 1% (of a professionally administered version of this test) you might be considered a psychopath.

[1] http://www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%2...

I saw top 5% and did not know how to interpret that either.
Me too! Let's go chop up some people! Hehe J/K... or am I? DUN DUN DUN!