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How psychopathic are you compared to everyone else?
Among 7,722 people who have taken the Dark Mirror, the median psychopathic score is 15. 20% have it as their highest axis, and 3% score in the high band at 60 or above. The top 10% starts at 45.
Pick a score
45
A psychopathic score of 45 is higher than 91% of 7,722 takers, the top 9%. 239 people scored exactly this.
The axis is shaping choices.
That was a score you picked. Twenty scenarios, seven minutes, and the Index reads your real one on every axis.
Get your real oneKanika Batra sat the same twenty scenarios. Her psychopathic score is 75, the high band, higher than 99% of takers. She is diagnosed ASPD, clinically assessed as Factor 1 psychopathy, by her psychiatrist; the dashed line is one person's self-report on a screener, not a clinical reading of it.
The ladder
Every row is a permalink (#score-60): a psychopathic score of 60 is higher than 97% of takers.
| Score | Band | Takers | Higher than |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | High | 3 | 99% |
| 95 | High | 6 | 99% |
| 90 | High | 9 | 99% |
| 85 | High | 12 | 99% |
| 80 | High | 18 | 99% |
| 75 | High | 25 | 99% |
| 70 | High | 39 | 99% |
| 65 | High | 68 | 98% |
| 60 | High | 89 | 97% |
| 55 | Pronounced | 131 | 96% |
| 50 | Pronounced | 143 | 94% |
| 45 | Pronounced | 239 | 91% |
| 40 | Pronounced | 314 | 88% |
| 35 | Traits | 403 | 83% |
| 30 | Traits | 528 | 77% |
| 25 | Traits | 618 | 70% |
| 20 | Traits | 753 | 61% |
| 15 | Baseline | 952 | 50% |
| 10 | Baseline | 1,071 | 37% |
| 5 | Baseline | 1,214 | 22% |
| 0 | Baseline | 1,087 | 7% |
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
What percentage of people are psychopaths?
Most research puts the clinical rate near 1% of the general population. Among people who take the Dark Mirror, 20% lean psychopathic and 3% score high. Neither figure is a diagnosis rate; both describe who chooses to take a dark psychology test.
Psychopathic traits or actual psychopathy?
Traits sit in the 20 to 35 band and are common. Actual psychopathy is a clinical finding on the PCL-R or a DSM-5 assessment. A high band score means the axis dominates your answers, which is where the two start to look alike, and it still is not a diagnosis.
What is a normal psychopathic score?
The middle of the pack is 15. Half of everyone scores 15 or below. A 45 is already higher than most people who answered the same questions.
Is a high score a diagnosis?
No. It is a self-report across twenty scenarios. Only a clinician can diagnose, and only with a proper assessment. Read the band, not a label.
“I sit at the top of this axis, and I was assessed as Factor 1 by my psychiatrist. The number I watch is not the top. It is how many people sit at thirty and were never once told.”
Kanika Batra
What this axis measures
Twenty scenarios, each with one answer that reads as cold, calculating, or unmoved by consequence. The psychopathic score is the share of your answers that fell that way. It measures a direction across situations, not a diagnosis, and it moves in steps of five.
Traits, or the type?
Traits are the 20 to 35 band: cool under pressure, low sentimentality, comfortable with leverage. Most people have some. Psychopathy as a clinical finding is something else, assessed with the PCL-R or a DSM-5 evaluation. The high band is where the two start to look alike; only a clinician can say which it is.
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