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Why rap is diverse it’s one of those things you can’t universally hate like Rock. Rap is nothing like Country (which has no such variety) and I love country. In fact anyone who is a a fan of how diverse rock music is and actually gave rap a listen will realize that you can find anything and everything in rap, literally anything someone is doing it somewhere because what sort of defines rap is the fact that it is so diverse so you can have people who spit something so lyrical you need to sit down and analyze bar after bar to someone who is so simple an eight year old child can rewrite it (Every Lil Pump song ever made). The two biggest songs ever are both rap songs. I am open to all music genres personally except for most screamo/heavy metal or its variants I really can’t stand songs like that.
Gangnam style- which raps in Korean
Despacito- which raps in Spanish
Sociopath already pretty much, in a cultural sense of the word, means "I'm cool and I'm such a baddass I don't care about nothin'" rather than the more accurate basic definition of just being an ass and continuing to be an ass all through your life.
People love to pretend to be sociopaths, and a lot of people don't know what sociopaths actually are so they just call themselves sociopaths when what they really mean is "emo." I could definitely imagine something similar happening to the word "psychopath."
That makes me very curious about just how they figured out the people in question's psychopathy "score." I could easily imagine a bunch of attention seekers who fantasize about being psychic vampires choosing the answers they think make them sound the most like psychopaths on any tests given, just because they imagine themselves to be psychopaths.
Also, think these two paragraphs are important, from the link:
The larger study will now investigate whether the link between musical tastes and psychopathy is real, and if it is, whether groups of songs can predict potential psychopaths. That could lead to some controversial applications, Wallisch said. If the team can identify a group of 30 songs, for example, that together prove good at predicting psychopaths, then playlists from online music providers could be used to identify them.
“The beauty of this idea is you can use it as a screening test without consent, cooperation or maybe even the knowledge of the people involved,†Wallisch said. “The ethics of this are very hairy, but so is having a psychopath as a boss, and so is having a psychopath in any position of power.†Fortunately for ethicists, the possibility is some way off yet. “This work is very preliminary,†Wallisch added. “This is not the end of an investigation, it is the very beginning.â€
So this is is a very early, and small study. It may turn out to be wrong over the long run.
None of this makes any sense with regards to this discussion. Psychopathology has nothing to do with Sociopaths. They are different. You should know that.
"More than three million people have responded so far, and while online surveys have serious weaknesses, the results so far suggest psychopaths favour rap music over classical and jazz. They also seem more likely to read the Financial Times than other newspapers. "
Something about that just makes me laugh - rappin' psycho reading the Financial Times.
None of this makes any sense with regards to this discussion. Psychopathology has nothing to do with Sociopaths. They are different. You should know that.
I do know that sociopaths and psychopaths are different. I didn't intend to give the impression I believed they were the same thing.
I wouldn't say that sociopaths and psychopaths have nothing to do with each other though. I am under the impression that psychopaths are essentially more destructive versions of sociopaths:
My point though, was that sociopathy is cool because people associate it with being a badass who doesn't care about anything, so people will pretend to be sociopaths, and I could very easily imagine people pretending to be psychopaths for the same reason, and so I was suggesting a possible weakness in the study stemming from that.
Something about that just makes me laugh - rappin' psycho reading the Financial Times.
Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at Oxford, and the author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths, has been gathering data on musical tastes and other preferences for a psychopath study with Channel 4. More than three million people have responded so far, and while online surveys have serious weaknesses, the results so far suggest psychopaths favour rap music over classical and jazz. They also seem more likely to read the Financial Times than other newspapers. https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ic-study-shows
Yeah, I don't know how they did the primary study the article is about of the 200 people...but I'm guessing those online studies of the three million plus participants were primarily done by fairly normal emo twelve year olds, or if you had to tell your age, it's going to be mostly non-psychopath, emo 20-30 year olds who are the adult "psychopaths."
I don't know why a psychopath would want to contribute to society in the form of a survey. I'm think the participants were 0% actual psychopaths, 80% emo 12 year olds, and 20% emo 20 something year olds who think they're psychopaths because they didn't cry after watching the sad movie scene with Bambi's mother.
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