I think it was created for channel 4 to promote a documentary they were doing about the psychopath scale and how there are many people with characteristics and traits that relate to a psychopath.

They interviewed a varied amount of people including mass murderers. It was found that professions such as bankers and doctors are extremely high on the psychopath scale.

Really interesting stuff. But then again I love researching psychology.


The test itself is very broad, as you said Kowalski. In doing that I think they were just trying to show how many characteristics and traits overlap from those of a psychopath. There is an extremely more indepth test here. The scores are asessed from a range of 1-5 and they are to 1 decimal point for a possibly more accurate score description.

This is how I spent my friday at work; emailing everyone in the building to do the quiz and then managing the results. Highest in the office was 86%.. best watch out for that guy.