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How sociopathic are you compared to everyone else?
Among 7,722 takers, the sociopathic axis bunches tightly: the median is 15 and 97% sit at or below 35. Only 0% reach the high band. 9% have it as their highest axis.
Pick a score
45
A sociopathic score of 45 is higher than 99% of 7,722 takers, the top 1%. 67 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 sociopathic score is 0, the baseline band, higher than 5% 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 sociopathic score of 60 is higher than 99% of takers.
| Score | Band | Takers | Higher than |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | High | 1 | 99% |
| 95 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 90 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 85 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 80 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 75 | High | 2 | 99% |
| 70 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 65 | High | 2 | 99% |
| 60 | High | 6 | 99% |
| 55 | Pronounced | 10 | 99% |
| 50 | Pronounced | 35 | 99% |
| 45 | Pronounced | 67 | 99% |
| 40 | Pronounced | 143 | 97% |
| 35 | Traits | 310 | 95% |
| 30 | Traits | 502 | 89% |
| 25 | Traits | 746 | 81% |
| 20 | Traits | 1,179 | 69% |
| 15 | Baseline | 1,374 | 52% |
| 10 | Baseline | 1,424 | 34% |
| 5 | Baseline | 1,185 | 17% |
| 0 | Baseline | 736 | 5% |
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
Am I a sociopath or just cold?
Cold usually scores on the psychopathic axis, not this one. This axis rises with impulsive, reactive answers. If your sociopathic score is at or below 15 you are with the bottom half of takers; being reserved is not the same thing.
What is a high sociopathic score?
The high band starts at 60. Only 0% of takers reach it; the top 10% starts at 35.
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.
What this axis measures
Answers that read as impulsive, rule-bending, quick to anger, and short on remorse rather than cold. The sociopathic axis is the reactive cousin of the psychopathic one: heat where that one is ice.
Traits, or the type?
Traits here look like a short fuse, a taste for risk, and a loose relationship with rules. Antisocial personality disorder is the clinical label, diagnosed on DSM-5 criteria and history, and it is far rarer than the traits. A high band score is a pattern in your answers, not that history.
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Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.