1% of the population are psychopaths
 

I read that the other night. Shocking numbers.

Really makes you think.

Explains a lot of deals that go sour and leave you thinking "WTF?"

From now on any "WTF moment" that I have I'll just chalk up to it being a psychopath moment.

i think they call them sociopaths now

They are cousins.

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David T. Lykken proposes psychopathy and sociopathy are two distinct kinds of antisocial personality disorder. He believes psychopaths are born with temperamental differences such as impulsivity, cortical underarousal, and fearlessness that lead them to risk-seeking behavior and an inability to internalize social norms. On the other hand, he claims sociopaths have relatively normal temperaments; their personality disorder being more an effect of negative sociological factors like parental neglect, delinquent peers, poverty, and extremely low or extremely high intelligence. Both personality disorders are the result of an interaction between genetic predispositions and environmental factors, but psychopathy leans towards the hereditary whereas sociopathy tends towards the environmental.[38]

There is a difference.

I know many of them

Funny thing is Redheads make up 1% of the population also.. hmmmmmmmm:error

And 50%+ of that 1% total seem to have found there way here.

1% ? Let's KILL them all !! :1orglaugh

What's 1% of 6 billion

fuck you all

Sixty million.

And 70% are idiots, so what...

and 98% of the people are in denial that they are one. ;)

In such a psychopathic society that number seems small. If it were that small it wouldn't be so much fun to watch ...

I'm sure i know half of that 1%.

I enjoy your posts.

and I hope you like mine. Here's a fun one. Please take your medication first. This is a good way to start the work day.

at least 99 percent around you are healthy

At least not psychopats.

sociopaths ftw

Pleased to know you:thumbsup

i call bullshit. at least 30% of women are

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Count me in.

1 in 25 ppl are soc/psy...

Sociopaths/Psychopaths are leaders in such fields as religion, business, and government... They all got that fearless go-getta personality... Also, a great percentage of them are in prison for there callousness... They just dont have the capacity to care...

UNTRUE! :mad: I should hunt you down and gut you for saying that.

I think that percentage is more bigger

It is! The popular statistic among experts is 1 in 25 ppl are psychopaths...

I wonder if that is growing or not.

The term may be broadening. Most people are idiots/assholes/lack common sense etc etc. There's a lot of flaws in most humans. Psychopaths... maybe not so much. 1% seems high.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a20...ker-740320.jpg

O Rly?

That is rather shocking actually!