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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I think this has also been found in samples out of prison (relation between IQ and measures of psychopathy along a scale)
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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And the study can disguise the real motive, as many do
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Experimental psychologists should be skeptical of any results that rely on self-report from an uncooperative population for reasons that are super obvious, *especially* if they're measuring something for which "ability to successfully avoid being tricked" would be a strong filter
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No, no, I mean, you just grab a random sample of people, ask them question, see if those that score higher in the psychopathy scale are smarter
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Dude, the psychopathy scale is not subtle
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