After reading the abstract, I'm not impressed with this paper.
A sample subset of 16 females that underwent forensic psychiatric assessment and scored a 25+ (what is being used to classify them as psychopathic). One died from suicide, one from drowning. The paper then does its best to connect health related fatalities (e.g. cancer/heart disease) to riskier/unhealthy behavior.
The other 41 participants were inmates that scored below the threshold.
It sounds like it's also getting the 12 fold when comparing to the general Finnish population of females, not the female prison population (they only used the 41 that scored less than 25 on the fpa).
Great headline but man does it feel like it was stretching to get a result.
corvaxia t1_irz2c0p wrote
Reply to Study finds twelvefold higher mortality risk among psychopathic female offenders by nikan69
After reading the abstract, I'm not impressed with this paper.
A sample subset of 16 females that underwent forensic psychiatric assessment and scored a 25+ (what is being used to classify them as psychopathic). One died from suicide, one from drowning. The paper then does its best to connect health related fatalities (e.g. cancer/heart disease) to riskier/unhealthy behavior.
The other 41 participants were inmates that scored below the threshold.
It sounds like it's also getting the 12 fold when comparing to the general Finnish population of females, not the female prison population (they only used the 41 that scored less than 25 on the fpa).
Great headline but man does it feel like it was stretching to get a result.