boardrooms and parliaments, it's somewhere between 3 to 21%. Now, again, numbers are very disputed
for - stats - psychopathy - 3 to 21% in boardrooms and parliaments - more likely to find psychopath in boardroom and parliament than grocery store - SRG comment - stats- shadow side of leadership - high percentage of leaders have dark triad
for men, there's rough agreement that amongst the general population, 1% of people would pass the clinical threshold for psychopathy
for - stats - psychopathy - 1% of male population
Why is it that despite incredible 21st century advances in every realm of medicine and science and so on, we still are stuck with all the wrong people in charge of our lives?
True narcissists don’t realize they are narcissists. And if they do, they just forget about the subject, bending reality and going into denial.
Quora question
Sociopathy is chiefly characterized as something severely wrong with one's conscience; psychopathy is characterized as a complete lack of conscience regarding others.
About 3 percent of men and about 1 percent of women have antisocial personality disorder.
These are large numbers.
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