Prof. Chris French
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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It's not the nerd personality index. Lack of empathy, Rose. Oh, no. Okay, let me put the link in the chat.
I'm going to say not good.
Mm-hmm. The thought of ruling the world frightens the hell out of me versus if I ruled the world, it would be a better place. I think about this a lot. It's number two. If I ruled the world, it would be a better place. Yeah, yeah. It's not a hard bar right now, is it?
I am no better or no worse than most people, or I think I am a special person.
I just want to be reasonably happy, or I want to amount to something in the eyes of the world.
Yeah, I feel confident in this one. The other day I told someone this story. I was like, the other day I ate a bunch of pineapple. It was really sweet. And then I had a bagel. And the bagel was really sour in comparison to the pineapple. It was like, great story. So that is a sometimes good storyteller. I actually think everybody likes to hear my stories. Oh, okay.
People sometimes believe what I tell them, or I can make anybody believe anything I want them to. I wish.
So when they have used this test in sort of a general sample, just so you know, is in college students. That's kind of how it's been normed.
15.
Yeah. Do you want to hear about standard deviation?
That's about seven points on either side. So, you know, eight to 22. So that's like you're in like the middle chunk of the population. Okay.
Less than eight, you're really on a tail end of like, you're kind of a shrinking violet.
More than 22, you're getting up there in your narcissistic traits. All right. How did we do it? You got 17. Ooh. And I got 10.
You're a little higher up on the normal. Okay. Okay. Also, I just have to tell you this, Wendy. I found this paper published by Dr. Drew from Loveline. Do you know him? No. No, no, I don't. Oh, okay. It was this radio show where they answered sex questions. It was, like, big in the 2000s. They always had celebrity guests come on.
And it turns out this whole time Dr. Drew was giving the NPI to celebrities that came onto the show. And he published a paper to see, like, are celebrities more narcissistic than other people? Which kind of celebrity is the most narcissistic? Oh, okay. And just for fun, I'll tell you that they found the celebrity that had the highest score was... Radio hosts. Reality TV stars.
Reality TV stars got on average 19.5, which is so funny because that is like part of what kicked us all off for Keith and Jean. Okay, so with all that in mind...
Yeah, it checks out. I mean, that seems like just narcissistic enough. But to take this all back to Keith and Jean sitting in their basement.
Yeah, that's the whole point. That's why we took this test. Yes, of course. So the scientists think that people are getting more narcissistic, right? And so what they do is they find all these studies where people have taken this test. So they were able to find data on more than 16,000 college students taking this personality test between 1979 and 2006.
So then they crunched the numbers and they found that on average, narcissism seemed to be going up.
Yeah, I guess you could say that. And not only that, Keith and Jean also looked at all the stuff that was going on in the culture. So besides the reality TV stuff, stuff that they thought was evidence of people getting more narcissistic. So they pointed out that more people are getting cosmetic surgery. Parents have begun giving their children more unique names.
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