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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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I can almost guarantee it's either a BMW or an Audi that's one inch behind me on the motorway. So strange how universally true this is.

I’d guessed Audi/Diesel/Black/3yr lease based on my motorway commute.

Yep, concisely that! Generally doing 95 in the third lane, even when the other lanes are empty.

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

#33

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.

In my personal perception, Mercedes AMG (do these count as Mercedes?) drivers are the worst by far.

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

#34

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 l…

> I’m pretty sure there were Standford (or Princeton) psych professors casually diagnosing Trump with clinical narcissism on major news networks.

Yes there was something like that, it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional.

Though those were pretty crazy times, its unbelievable that clown got almost re-elected.

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

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"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.

Huh, didn't know that actually. I considered it a "royal" look-at-me colour sort of like gold (which takes it up a notch, but within the same vibe). Interesting.

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

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 l…

> I’m pretty sure there were Standford (or Princeton) psych professors casually diagnosing Trump with clinical narcissism on major news networks. Yes there was something like that, it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional. Though those were pretty crazy times, its unbelievable that clown got almost re-elected.

"it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional."

It certainly wasn't shunned by mainstream media.

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

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I’m pretty sure there were Standford (or Princeton) psych professors casually diagnosing Trump with clinical narcissism on major news networks. Yes there was something like that, it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional. Though those were pretty crazy times, its unbelievable that clown got almost re-elected.

"it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional." It certainly wasn't shunned by mainstream media.

like anyone with a 1/2 braincell listens to mainstream media for opinions

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional." It certainly wasn't shunned by mainstream media.

like anyone with a 1/2 braincell listens to mainstream media for opinions

A lot of people do - that is why it is "mainstream".

NYT articles get posted and upvoted on HN on a regular basis.

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