Jon Stewart had author Jon Ronson on the Daily Show. Ronson honestly looked a bit crazed while talking about this latest book. But I was intrigued with the idea of being able to diagnose psychopaths.
It turns out actually to be not that hard. There's a checklist of 20 questions. But psychopaths are fairly rare, supposedly somewhere just less than 1% of the general population. Things like: shallow affect (lack of emotion), superficial charm, manipulative, and lack of empathy are giveaways. Some, more accurate tests, are not allowed to be given anymore because they involve electric shocks (psychopaths don't have fear of electric shocks).
Ronson's self-deprecating humor entertains. He tries, with some success, to prove the claim that there are in fact psychopaths who are in boardrooms and positions of power.
(It seems likely that the Norway bomber/killer Breivik is a psychopath. I'm sure they're administering the Hare test or something like it.)
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