Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?
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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.
those darn likeable sociopaths!
on edit: just found the typo funny.
Someone please do this study with programming languages, I have my suspicions.
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...).
Interested if BMW actually cares about this perception of their brand.
I did read some research that showed they were more likely to jump red lights but I can't find it right now.
Or, there were no drivers from electric-only brands in the group.
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.
I say supposedly because I have strong reservations about how worthwhile the definitions of sociopath are, as well as reservations about the parts of the field of psychology that deal with identifying personality traits in order to make value judgments.
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.
Psychology also seems like an immediately scary example to me. I worry for example that "experts" can simply bypass the legal system by diagnosing people as "mentally ill" and having them locked away. Is there legal recourse for such a thing?
It should fall under libel. Matt Taibbi has spoken recently about how the media in particular have no fear of committing libel:
They will straight say certain things without any fear that someone might sue them for libel/character defamation. That link is a little topical due to the Rittenhouse case, but for many years they labeled Trump a variety of things on one side, and the right-wing labeled their targets in the same fashion on the other side. I’m pretty sure they also said Joe Rogan was taking horse medicine, which was a low blow. Well, not as low of a blow as insinuating Trump took part in Golden Showers (him pissing on girls, or vice versa, actual pee, if anyone needs to ask) in Russian hotels.
They don’t give a shit, and that’s just the media. Your average person now uses the same appeal to authority attack tactics in every day encounters.
What can you do if someone says you are toxic or __insert psychotic tendency here__ at work, in a relationship? The way we communicate seems to have shifted to the label being thrown out first, versus objectively walking through issues.
I don’t know, I have no answers honestly, and generally find this too exhausting to even try to dissect. I guess only Peter Thiel successfully launched a counter attack:
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/11/peter-thi...
In summary, you need some dope lawyers if you want recourse.
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 certainly wasn't shunned by mainstream media.
NYT articles get posted and upvoted on HN on a regular basis.
All kind of lies and misinformation is propagated via mainstream media. But that doesnt mean that the professionals in their respected fields are agreeing with some outlier giving a questionable interview on mainstream tv
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.