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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116569414436057553 "… Paul Babiak and Robert Hare spent years studying how psychopathic individuals navigate organizational environments. Their estimate is that roughly one percent of the general population meets the clinical threshold for psychopathy, while corporate managers cluster around three to four times that rate. The mechanism is not mysterious. Psychopaths tend to perform exceptionally well in job interviews. They are confident, articulate, and skilled at saying what an interviewer wants to hear. They feel no social anxiety in high-stakes situations, and can fabricate credentials and relationships convincingly because they feel no guilt about doing so. Once hired, they are evaluated primarily on how they appear to those above them in the organization, and making a strong impression on a small number of people across a limited number of interactions is something psychopaths do better than almost anyone else. …"