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Anonymous 07/28/23(Fri)18:38:58 No.35423486▶>>35423492
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I would like to touch on the mention of psychopaths as they exist in media, what I like to call “The Hollywood Psychopath”. We all know him. A cold, calculating and highly intelligent predator. There’s a common idea in psychology that the psychopath in reality almost always isn’t this. That psychopaths account for 1% of the population and actually lack impulse control and are generally of below average IQ. Of course, people will always admit to exceptions of these things, but that’s a general consensus of the real world psychopath. It’s why a quarter of inmates can qualify as a psychopath.

But I’d like to introduce a different train of thought regarding what a psychopath is. I think we’re all familiar with that one 4chan post about the guy who claimed to be involved in IQ studies and how the lower an IQ is the harder it is for the individual to process hypotheticals - to the point they can’t even process them at all. With this in mind, it would mean that those with lower IQs would have more difficulty with empathy, given it heavily runs on the hypothetical of putting oneself in another’s shoes.

Keeping that in mind, I think those with lower IQs - resulting in similar behaviors commonly associated with psychopathy - should NOT be considered psychopaths. They’re simply people whose symptoms are similar to psychopathy, but shouldn’t be considered an actual psychopath. If you apply this train of thought, suddenly the percentage of the population that would be psychopaths drops dramatically. It isn’t 1%, it might be more like .001% - not that we know for certain, given nobody has conducted studies with this perspective on the matter.

But once you remove the low IQ individuals, you have a reduced population that now more closely would resemble the Hollywood psychopath. Someone that does exist more like what they see in the media. My personal experience with genuine psychopaths in life I’ve found to align with this
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Anonymous 09/02/23(Sat)03:43:10 No.35779485▶
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It’s best to be aware of these things, though. For it will be useful when the time comes.
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