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Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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Re: Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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Why would Benzes be so behind BMW and Audi? I’d prefer if they focused on sociopathy and narcissism versus psychopathy since I don’t feel like psychopaths are as common as the other two.

Someone please do this study with programming languages, I have my suspicions.

Re: Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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FTA: “The drivers with the highest likeability of being a psychopath were BMW drivers, with an average psychopathy score of 12.1 out of 36”

The linked-to test says “The scoring of the psychopathy test is as follows: 0-18: No psychopathy”

So, “most psychopath” is more like “least not psychopath”.

The data also is based on self-reporting, but I’m not sure that matters much. True psychopaths might not have reservations about saying they are.

Re: Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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Iirc there was also a finding that learning about economics makes people score higher on those tests, so I worry they are more of an ideological tool than science. They may simply have categorized behaviors they don't like as "psychopath". I don't trust them.

Re: Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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Iirc there was also a finding that learning about economics makes people score higher on those tests, so I worry they are more of an ideological tool than science. They may simply have categorized behaviors they don't like as "psychopath". I don't trust them.

That’s just the reality of normalizing casual psychiatric evaluations now days. I’m pretty sure there were Standford (or Princeton) psych professors casually diagnosing Trump with clinical narcissism on major news networks. If anyone has a any kind of spaz out moment, they are automatically bipolar to many people.

It’s the true meta form of cancelling someone, it just hasn’t caught on just yet (not to that level at least). There’s a contingent that has already started diagnosing Biden as senile. It’s one more way to categorize people, usually to discredit them.

Don’t get along with your parents? Welp, head on over to /r/raisedbynarcissists, simple as that. Don’t like your ex? Boss sucks? Again, narcissist, sociopath, etc.

If you think people live in a media or news bubble, wait till you dig into their amateur psych eval bubble of a life they got going on (seriously, visit some of those subreddits). Check those bubbles out, there is never a single ounce of objectivity in those subreddits/forums, just intense confirmation bias.

Re: Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?

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How can electric be the highest scoring of that group, but electric only manufactures don't show up?

Statistically speaking, (and assuming no flawed data) that would suggest that the highest scoring electric vehicle drivers are biased heavily towards other brands.

Or, there were no drivers from electric-only brands in the group.

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