Raine interviewed 108 volunteers from five temporary employment agencies in Los Angeles and set them standard psychopathic tests. This allowed him to identify 12 as pathological liars, 16 as people with a personality disorder but who did not exhibit pathological lying and 21 as controls, who were neither anti-social, nor liars.
What this means: Based on this representative sample from five different agencies, 11% of temporary workers in L.A. are pathological liars and another 15% have other kinds of personality disorders.
In other words, about one out of four temps in L.A. have diagnosable personality disorders -- a serious psychiatric condition.
Whatever the case may be regarding the brains of pathological liars, that's an interesting statistic to know.
Meanwhile, I would expect Bill Clinton to hold all calls from USC right about now...
When you think about it, this number isn't that far off from common experience. There's an awful lot of a**holes out there.
Remember, these are disabilities, and workplace accommodations should be made for the people that have them. (Cough, cough.)