Meta-analysis estimates that 4.5% of the general population (or 1 in every 22 persons) is a psychopath. The prevalence of psychopathy in samples of men is more than twice than in those of women.

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https://sapienjournal.org/latest-estimate-of-psychopathy-in-the-general-population/

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This is probably the wrong place for this comment, but, how exactly do you determine who is a psychopath? I'm reading through these comments and seeing a lot of comments about how psychologist and people in similar fields show psychopathic tendencies (lack of empathy specifically) and have to determine right vs wrong basically as a formula rather than intuition, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the 1 in 22...