Monday, September 19, 2011

If psycopathy is a medical disorder, do I qualify for food stamps???

I'm not crazy!!!!!!!
So I took the crazy test... er...the social psycopath test and I got a good score.......

I got the following:

The test results don't suggest
strong psychopathic tendencies.


This does not mean the person isn't a potential mass-murderer. They may be mad, they may resort to violence. A close professional or emotional relationship with even the most normal of people may prove to be a damaging, or at least boring, experience.

I am kind of happy but also kind of worried about this....

Then I listened to This Americal Life 436: The Psychopath Test

The test is used to determine whether prisoners were a psychopath and if they could get parole.
The test is often called "the checklist"
Basically the psychopaths essentially were emotionless. The had no feelings, or anything at all.
There is one problem though. There is know way to measure psychiatric data.
The test created a measurement system.
Back in the day Social factors and environmental factors created criminals.
What the checklist did was create a personality test used for marginal academic research was used to predict criminal behavior.

There are worries that the parole boards would misuse this test.
Many values and moral issues with this.

Some people say the test isn't really good because it weighs heavily on the past.

Such, it is like setting up people who had bad bad childhoods to be labeled as psychopaths. Even if they we'rent.Not fair at all... :/

It's hard being a psychopath, or even being marked as one...

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