I think this has also been found in samples out of prison (relation between IQ and measures of psychopathy along a scale)
Plausible, but I'm skeptical... Psychopaths in prison are *literally* a captive population to study; psychopaths outside of prison are incentivized to stay out of psychopathy studies. If there's a sampling problem, it's going to skew results up on traits common in prison popshttps://twitter.com/sapinker/status/822504016731131906 …
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If you are willing to participate in a study on psychopathy as an actual psychopath, you were either too dumb to figure out what the study was about or had too high an impulsivity:intelligence ratio to help yourself. Same traits, not yet in prison
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Seems like a pretty strange suggestion on his part. Most people couldn't be psychopaths even if they really wanted to. It takes a lot of knowledge to be able to understand and manipulate people like they do. Surely that takes (lots of) intelligence?
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Psychopathy is remarkably common in prison populations for this reason. The big question: how common are socially functional psychopaths? And it's a tough one to answer, because it's very unwise for a psychopath to let the mask slip, even with a researcher.
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Excellent point!
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