In contemporary research and clinical practice, Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), below, is the psycho-diagnostic tool most commonly used to assess Psychopathy.
This version of PCL-R excludes items that cannot be determined from what is in the public record regarding President Bush. Those items are preselected as "Doesn't Apply" and their omission is factored into the final score.
To make your evaluation, go through the list and select the rating which in your experience most closely approximates your observation of and information you've read about President Bush.
To see results of your evaluation, click the "Show evaluation" button.
POLL CLOSED 1/3/2007, 6:30 P.M., CST - FINAL RESULTS BELOW - FORM MAY BE USED, BUT NO FURTHER RESULTS ARE BEING POSTED
FINAL RESULTS: Out of 6,595 evaluations submitted, the average score is 32.3850. Discarding both high (40) and low (1) scores produces 5,540 submissions with an average of 31.0404.
4,499 respondents out of 6,595 (68 percent) rated President Bush's public behavior as consistent with that of a psychopath by submitting evaluations with scores over 30.
A score higher than 30 supports a diagnosis of psychopathy (25 in some studies -- 5,566 [84 percent] placed Bush in this category).
US by state breakdown - all scores - (4,460 scores by identifiable state):
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Outside US by country breakdown - all countries with >3 submissions - (1,313 scores by identifiable country):
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Forensic studies of prison populations have reported average scores of around 22 on PCL-R; "normal" control populations show an average score of around 5.
Scores were adjusted for uncounted items.
Note this reflects only submitted evaluations and doesn't represent a truly random sample.
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