Mdtryhht

Is CEO the profession with the most psychopaths?

For a new assistant professor in CS, how to build/manage a publication pipeline

How to Make a Beautiful Stacked 3D Plot

Significance of Cersei's obsession with elephants?

How to tell that you are a giant?

How can I use the Python library networkx from Mathematica?

How do pianists reach extremely loud dynamics?

An adverb for when you're not exaggerating

Trademark violation for app?

Fantasy story; one type of magic grows in power with use, but the more powerful they are, they more they are drawn to travel to their source

Is it a good idea to use CNN to classify 1D signal?

Amount of permutations on an NxNxN Rubik's Cube

Can you use the Shield Master feat to shove someone before you make an attack by using a Readied action?

How could we fake a moon landing now?

Using audio cues to encourage good posture

Should I use a zero-interest credit card for a large one-time purchase?

What are the out-of-universe reasons for the references to Toby Maguire-era Spider-Man in ITSV

Is safe to use va_start macro with this as parameter?

Is there any way for the UK Prime Minister to make a motion directly dependent on Government confidence?

What is implied by the word 'Desika'

Did MS DOS itself ever use blinking text?

When the Haste spell ends on a creature, do attackers have advantage against that creature?

8 Prisoners wearing hats

また usage in a dictionary

Is CEO the profession with the most psychopaths?

5

An opinion article in Time has this subheading:

CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.

This may have been added by a headline editor though, because the article body doesn't flesh out the fact that well, besides this (ordered?) list

It's not impossible that the book cited may have made that claim too though (I didn't check.) Anyway, is there high quality empirical to back up this claim that CEOs have the most (or at least a large number) of psychopaths compared to other occupations?

(I do note that Time marked the article as opinion, perhaps to distance itself from the claims therein. Nevertheless, the claim in question is stated as a bare fact therein.)

psychology labor

share|improve this question

edited 12 hours ago

Fizz

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I have seen credible accounts from several respected psychologists and psycho-scientists that strongly associate psychopathy and related disorders with CEOism. I've never seen any sort of rigorous survey of this, however.
  
  – Daniel R Hicks
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  There was apparently one more recent study, but it has been retracted, although apparently for plagiarism retractionwatch.com/2018/01/12/…
  
  – Fizz
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  "CEO" isn't a profession. It's a position, but I've heard that claim too. Probably a Facebook meme, so nothing to affirm/deny the claim.
  
  – Phil N DeBlanc
  12 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @PhilNDeBlanc Agreed on your first part, I just used their terminology; I considered putting in scare quotes, but it might have been interpreted as just quotes...
  
  – Fizz
  10 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

5

An opinion article in Time has this subheading:

CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.

This may have been added by a headline editor though, because the article body doesn't flesh out the fact that well, besides this (ordered?) list

It's not impossible that the book cited may have made that claim too though (I didn't check.) Anyway, is there high quality empirical to back up this claim that CEOs have the most (or at least a large number) of psychopaths compared to other occupations?

(I do note that Time marked the article as opinion, perhaps to distance itself from the claims therein. Nevertheless, the claim in question is stated as a bare fact therein.)

psychology labor

share|improve this question

edited 12 hours ago

Fizz

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I have seen credible accounts from several respected psychologists and psycho-scientists that strongly associate psychopathy and related disorders with CEOism. I've never seen any sort of rigorous survey of this, however.
  
  – Daniel R Hicks
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  There was apparently one more recent study, but it has been retracted, although apparently for plagiarism retractionwatch.com/2018/01/12/…
  
  – Fizz
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  "CEO" isn't a profession. It's a position, but I've heard that claim too. Probably a Facebook meme, so nothing to affirm/deny the claim.
  
  – Phil N DeBlanc
  12 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @PhilNDeBlanc Agreed on your first part, I just used their terminology; I considered putting in scare quotes, but it might have been interpreted as just quotes...
  
  – Fizz
  10 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

An opinion article in Time has this subheading:

CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.

This may have been added by a headline editor though, because the article body doesn't flesh out the fact that well, besides this (ordered?) list

It's not impossible that the book cited may have made that claim too though (I didn't check.) Anyway, is there high quality empirical to back up this claim that CEOs have the most (or at least a large number) of psychopaths compared to other occupations?

(I do note that Time marked the article as opinion, perhaps to distance itself from the claims therein. Nevertheless, the claim in question is stated as a bare fact therein.)

psychology labor

share|improve this question

edited 12 hours ago

Fizz

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

share|improve this question

edited 12 hours ago

Fizz

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

share|improve this question

edited 12 hours ago

Fizz

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

asked 12 hours ago

FizzFizz

10k13780

1 Answer
1

active

oldest

votes

12

The table provided is directly copied from Page 173 of The Wisdom of Psychopaths.

It explains the source is The Great British Psychopath Study, where self-selected people submit their own Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and categorise themselves according to a list of a hundred or so occupations.

The occupations listed notably do not include "manager" or "CEO", but do include "Chairman/President of company" and "Managing Director".

Given the self-selection and the lack of validation of the data (e.g. people might deliberately skew the results with fake data), the results should be treated with some skepticism.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  One has to wonder how many CEOs have had the time and interest to fill that form...
  
  – Fizz
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  While I agree with the self-selection concern, expecting a bias favoring self-selection by psychopaths seems incompatible with the defining characteristics of psychopathy.
  
  – Eric Towers
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

12

The table provided is directly copied from Page 173 of The Wisdom of Psychopaths.

It explains the source is The Great British Psychopath Study, where self-selected people submit their own Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and categorise themselves according to a list of a hundred or so occupations.

The occupations listed notably do not include "manager" or "CEO", but do include "Chairman/President of company" and "Managing Director".

Given the self-selection and the lack of validation of the data (e.g. people might deliberately skew the results with fake data), the results should be treated with some skepticism.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  One has to wonder how many CEOs have had the time and interest to fill that form...
  
  – Fizz
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  While I agree with the self-selection concern, expecting a bias favoring self-selection by psychopaths seems incompatible with the defining characteristics of psychopathy.
  
  – Eric Towers
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

12

The table provided is directly copied from Page 173 of The Wisdom of Psychopaths.

It explains the source is The Great British Psychopath Study, where self-selected people submit their own Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and categorise themselves according to a list of a hundred or so occupations.

The occupations listed notably do not include "manager" or "CEO", but do include "Chairman/President of company" and "Managing Director".

Given the self-selection and the lack of validation of the data (e.g. people might deliberately skew the results with fake data), the results should be treated with some skepticism.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  One has to wonder how many CEOs have had the time and interest to fill that form...
  
  – Fizz
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  While I agree with the self-selection concern, expecting a bias favoring self-selection by psychopaths seems incompatible with the defining characteristics of psychopathy.
  
  – Eric Towers
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

The table provided is directly copied from Page 173 of The Wisdom of Psychopaths.

It explains the source is The Great British Psychopath Study, where self-selected people submit their own Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and categorise themselves according to a list of a hundred or so occupations.

The occupations listed notably do not include "manager" or "CEO", but do include "Chairman/President of company" and "Managing Director".

Given the self-selection and the lack of validation of the data (e.g. people might deliberately skew the results with fake data), the results should be treated with some skepticism.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532

answered 8 hours ago

Oddthinking♦Oddthinking

102k31427532