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Cold and sociopathic are not the same axis. On the Dark Mirror, coldness scores psychopathic; the sociopathic axis rises with heat, impulse and rule-breaking. Only 0.3% of takers score high on it. Here is how to tell which one you are reading.
On the Dark Mirror, the average narcissistic score is about 10 out of 100. Four in five takers sit at baseline and one person in 2,000+ scores high. That is not because narcissists are rare. It is because of how a self-report works, and here is the whole curve.
On the Dark Mirror, the median psychopathic score is 20 out of 100. A 45 already beats four in five takers. Here is how to read your number against everyone else, band by band, with the live percentile ladder.
The clinical estimate is about one in a hundred. Among people who choose to take a dark psychology test, 29% lean psychopathic and 7% score high. Here is what the gap actually means, with the live numbers.
New York, London, Chicago and Los Angeles send the most people to the Dark Mirror. Which of them scores darkest is a different question, and the Index answers it live, by browser timezone, with every caveat attached.
Nearly half of the people who sit my dark psychology quiz are handed the most ordinary result on it. That is not the quiz failing. It is what a self-report does with a curious audience, and the interesting number is what came second.