Psychopath test

Absent I find it reassuring that in an ever-changing world there are some things that don't.

I was 9% too - I too was empathic, caring and all sorts of flattering things but I must, apparently, look out for psychopathic types who may take advantage of me

Sorry have posted already - oops.

33% - seems to be a reasonable average.

3 percent.

I'm off to put the questions to DH who i expect to score higher.

33% on mine, too.

Mishap my score and my experience exactly. Explains a lot.

I have done the test twice with the same score both times. mine is a very high score.

I saw a test to do to pass the time. I wanted to do it. I did it! The description of me was more or less spot on. I too was astonished !

DDH scored 36% and the description suits him to a T

As I exoected scored far higher than my 3 percent - 36 percent.

I wonder if I am a wuss?

Meant to say DH scored higher

12% now I'm going back to see if I can identify any psychopaths I may have encountered. Although I'm pretty sure I know who they were.

I have met only one psychopath in my entire life and I'm not sure that would help me identify any others I might have the misfortune to encounter.

How do you know you've only met one, absent?

Sorry Ana – only one professionally diagnosed psychopath.

I was rubbish at identifying psychopaths. I need to be more careful.

Just watched the programme in Catch Up. Fascinating.

I got a far higher score than anyone here is owning up to, but the reading was good, saying that I am practical and pragmatic, and am moderate even in moderation. :-) I am a realist - but then I knew that. Even if I answered a full house on all of those questions I think it would make me a deeply unpleasant person, not a psychopath. It was interesting though. It's tempting in those quizzes to lie to yourself, which is ridiculous.

3% here, and a warning to be careful of psychopaths! Gosh - I hope I'm not a wimp with such a low reading!

According to the programme very few people who scored high on the spectrum are 'pyschos' in the sense we tend to use the term. There are two sides to this personality type, and they can be courageous, risk takers, decision makers. It also demonstrated that if you were in trouble, or danger or a tight situation these are the people you'd need 'at your back'. Think of soldiers who win medals for bravery, or athletes and sportsmen with tenacity and the 'killer instinct'.

18% me I am not surprised. It goes with the other of these sorts of personality or political views "tests" I have done.
Unless of course, I am so psychopathic that I have deliberately lied in my answers to look good.

9% which makes me very boring I suspect!

Well if you construct a questionnaire and whatever the score there is a slightly flattering description then everyone who does it will feel pleased with themselves won't they. This is trivialisation of psychiatry, yet again in the attempt to lure in viewers.
The questions are quite transparent and if you tick all the obvious choices, including snake (and get 10%) this is what it says about you:

You can play hardball with the best of them! You know what you want and are not afraid to go for it – even if it means bending the rules occasionally and putting a few noses out of joint on the way. Nothing fazes you. You are decisive, self-confident and pretty much up for anything. You are a ‘means-to-an-end’ person. For you, it’s not necessarily a matter of right or wrong, but of what gets the job done. ‘Bring it on’ is your mantra, but to help those around you keep their heads, you should learn some tricks to help you temper your self-satisfying tendencies...

But you wouldn't want to upset a psychopath when they could easily find out where you work, would you?
A more appropriate summing up might be "You are a nasty bastard aren't you. Been locked up yet?"

I don't understand why Kevin Dutton has put his name to this test - it's nothing remotely like the PCL-R that is used globally, and which Kevin is licensed to use to assess psychopathy. This test would screen most psychopaths as over 90%, then you would need to use the PCL-R to identify the cluster of psychopathy traits that aren't even mentioned on this test. This one is a test just for fun.