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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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post #11

One parameter that I feel is missing is horsepower. In any case I have friends and family members with obvious psychopathic tendencies and while a fraction of them is ineed reckless as drivers, the majority is actually exceptionally cautious.

Or car mass...

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

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What a lot of commenters are missing is that the premise of the question is flawed/garbage to begin with.

To infer that a self-reported psychopathy test is somehow indicative of mental disease and to further infer that this directly translates into driving style is ludicrous and doesn't pass several simple smell tests.

One commenter mentioned horsepower, and they may be onto something. Certainly a better prediction than a simple quiz, which might as well be a horoscope or something.

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

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post #20

"Gold" tops the list of car colours correlated with psycho behaviour, and I thought, well, that makes sense - but then the one at the very bottom is "red". I'm having trouble arranging this into some consistent mental image of the correlation.

Red tends to be a no cost paint option (along with white) - I expect there's an underlying factor of psychopaths choosing the high end options when kitting out the car.

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.

Mercedes-Benz probably still has a reputation that it's a luxury car for people who like it, and while BMW and Audi also target this market, most of their market is people looking for performance, i.e. speed.

Stereotypically, Merc buyers won't brag about their 0-60 times, while BMW/Audi buyers would. Merc has been trying to target that market though, e.g. with their A class (beginning from the 3rd gen, the 1st and 2nd gen were probably targetting old ladies...).

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

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It would be nice to see some standard deviations reported here! Nominal p-values would be a start too. Since N = 2000 it wouldn’t be hard to find atleast a few interesting findings. Although the bias from study design would make it hard to know if we can believe the outcomes.

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

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post #20

"Gold" tops the list of car colours correlated with psycho behaviour, and I thought, well, that makes sense - but then the one at the very bottom is "red". I'm having trouble arranging this into some consistent mental image of the correlation.

The psychopath is their own worst enemy here. Never buy a gold car. Gold is hard to see, especially peripherally (which is why it's so hard to find a gold ring if you drop it).
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