--- In [email protected], "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > Link to this study, please? It would be interesting to > > > know the basis for the compilation of these lists. > > > > I found the list here: > > > > http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/01/02/the-jobs-with-the-most-psychopaths/ > > > > http://tinyurl.com/apwa5cl > > Thanks, but this doesn't really tell me what I wanted to know. > > Turns out it wasn't a study but a book, "The Wisdom of > Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach > Us About Success." > > Here's its Amazon page: > > http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Psychopaths-Killers-Success/dp/0374291357/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top > > http://tinyurl.com/a47cmos > > Reading the one- and two-star reviews is very informative > with regard to what the writer's actual message is and > suggests some skepticism is warranted about his > conclusions.
A friend sent me a link to that list (the one Alex found). The book is published by FSG books, which publishes books, in part, for Scientific American, and the book is being sold on the Scientific American website. The following Google search URL locates some papers by Dutton under the Google Scholar search: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Kevin+Dutton%22+%22Dutton%2C+K%22+%22Dutton%2C+Kevin%22+psychology&btnG=Submit&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C7 I thought the list was interesting. Dutton seems to be into publishing. He seems to be second or third, or further down the list of authors on the scholarly papers. The book seems clearly aimed at a popular audience, and thus we can conclude the conclusions will be subject to even more rigorous contention than in a scholarly paper due to a more lax style of reporting. It could be, for example, that the highest percentage of psychopaths regularly post on the Yahoo group Fairfield Life. At any rate, the list does not show percentages or other statistical data that might throw some greater clarity on this. One review I found mentioned that Dutton cited or approximated, or perhaps guessed that 10% of the population is psychopathic. That means perhaps about 100 people (actually 116.5) listed as members on FFL might have those tendencies.
