How to read the scale
It measures a trait, not a sentence
The number is a read on a pattern of traits, scored against a two-factor model. Interpersonal / Affective is the cold core, charm, grandiosity, shallow affect. Lifestyle / Antisocial is the behaviour, impulsivity, recklessness, a trail of damage. A high score is not a diagnosis and not a prediction of harm. It is an observation about wiring.
The five bands
The ruler’s anchors
These two are reference points, not rankings. They are kept off the board on purpose: they exist to define the floor and the ceiling so every score in between means something.
Keanu Reeves
6The floor anchor
The floor of the scale. Decades in the most ego-inflating industry on earth and the through-line is deference, generosity, and a near-total absence of the traits this board measures. He is here to show you what a low read actually looks like, so the high ones mean something.
Ed Kemper
97The ceiling anchor
Both factors maxed. Articulate, self-narrativizing, and entirely documented in his own words across decades of recorded interviews. Convicted and deceased: the safest possible teaching case, and the practical ceiling of the instrument. Same Factor 1 machinery you will recognise in figures the world adores. The only difference is what he did with it.
The same Factor 1 core sits behind figures the world adores. The only difference is what they did with it.
Armchair pattern observation. Not a clinical diagnosis.