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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a good idea until you remember that women are just as capable as men of being lying psychopaths.

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You're right, it's a partial solution at best.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

That now makes me wonder what the distribution of psychopathy is over sex.

I assume they're independent and we'd have a "50:50" distribution.

Not interested enough to actually go and find out though.

[-] oddityoverseer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Psychopaths exist across cultures and ethnic groups and at an estimated frequency of about 1 percent of the population for males and 0.3–0.7 percent for females. Some researchers challenge these numbers, citing bias toward male manifestations in diagnostic instruments and methods.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201906/why-female-psychopaths-are-different-breed

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

TYVM!

Until the 2000s, most research on psychopathy used male participants, assuming that the findings would transfer to females.

Clinicians generally don’t expect females to be psychopaths, so they might [dis]miss key signs.

Figures.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So we will only allow half the females to kill rapists? Is that how statistics works?

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just give them guns. I mean, guns are primitive by today's measure to manufacture. A sufficient in scale production would make them cheap.

Though arming everybody in India would mean at least one gun for every teen and adult in 1.4bln population, and also ammo.

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