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Another interesting finding is that a higher concentration of lawyers predicts higher psychopathy prevalence. I kid you not.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/study-confirms-most-psychopaths-live-in-washington-d-c/

By Joe Jarvis

Murphy also included the District of Columbia in his research, and found it had a psychopathy level far higher than any other state. But this finding is an outlier, as Murphy notes, as it’s an entirely urban area and cannot be fairly compared with larger, more geographically diverse, US states. That said, as Murphy notes, “The presence of psychopaths in District of Columbia is consistent with the conjecture found in Murphy (2016) that psychopaths are likely to be effective in the political sphere.”

Surprised? I didn’t think so. But still, fun to get some scientific confirmation.

So removing D.C. can you guess which states come in the top three? I bet you can.

1. Connecticut
2. California
3. New Jersey

New York ties for the fourth highest concentration of psychopaths among U.S. states. Interestingly, it ties with Wyoming… which I would not have expected. But the author notes there was a relatively small sample surveyed from Wyoming.

The least psychopathic states are:

1. West Virginia
2. Vermont
3. Tennessee
4. North Carolina
5. New Mexico

And it should not be surprising that the main correlation was that state with the lowest percentage of people living in urban areas also had the lowest concentration of psychopaths…

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