The Psychopath Test
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Oh, yeah, you can't.
Okan sent this to me yesterday, and I'm still not sure whether I'm dismayed that I got it right immediately or kind of proud because I love doing well on tests, even when the test measures total derangement. (I was once looking up the signs of clinical depression on the Internet to see if I was depressed and in need of treatment, rather than just blue. I cheered up so much when I got a perfect score on the Hamilton Depression Index that no further intervention was necessary.)
I maintain that calling it "the psychopath test" is such a huge giveaway that the question couldn't possibly have any diagnostic value. But because there's that little niggling concern in my mind, I figured I'd run it up the Ricochet flagpole and see who else shoots it dead without so much as a measurable change in his galvanic skin response and then goes out for a box of donuts and never thinks about it again.
So, the e-mail goes like this:
Read this question, then come up with an answer. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has gotten it right. Few people do.
A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a man she did not know.
She thought the man was amazing. She believed him to be the man of her dreams--so much that she fell in love with him right there, but she never asked for his number and afterwards couldn't find him.
A few days later she killed her sister.
Question: What was her motive for killing her sister?
Suggest your answers; I'll tell you the right answer at the end of the day. Apparently, if you come up with that answer, it's a bad, bad sign.
The e-mail says it was a test used by an American psychologist to determine whether the subject had a killer's mind. (This could of course be nonsense, and I'd guess probably is.) But the legend says that many arrested serial killers answered the question correctly. And so did I--without having to think about it much, frankly. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?
Isn't it?
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Oct '10
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So she could meet the man again, presumably at her sister's funeral. (Since he went to the mother's funeral, he'd be likely to attend the sister's.)
May '10
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For the inheritance.
May '10
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The correct answer works on the level of a joke, but puuuuuleeeez: she's so unresourceful she can't find out the name of someone so close to her family that he attended her mom's funeral and might attend her sister's, but she's resourceful enough to murder with the hope of getting away with it? Nonsense. This is not a test of a psychopath, it's a test of an idiot.
I did laugh when I read the answer, though.
May '10
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I could tell you the answer, but then I'l have to kill you. (I'm just kidding!)
I'm too paranoid to answer questions like that.
Jan '11
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Every woman I have asked (3) has gotten the right answer almost immediately. None of the men (3), me included got it right. I'm not sure what that means...
Jul '10
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Having been inspired by Ken Owsley:
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Because he'd come to her funeral, and then they could be happy forever!!! ZOMG!!! That's beautiful!!!