I think some PhD guy should do the research and develop something called the ‘lit-fuse’ factor, where you can assess the quick-to-react mentality of a person. I think between perceived things, use of drugs, and lack of rest...you might have 300,000 people walking around and it only takes some little comment by the burger-lady, the airline agent, or some snappy coffee shop kid....to trigger them into a physical altercation.
I'm not a PhD, but I do have a hypothesis regarding race and impulsivity. Most racial types are the result of adaptation to climate. Given a persistently warm climate, unnecessary motion is harmful to the organism, because it heats the body. Under normal conditions the organism remains as quiet and still as possible. However, because of the dangers inherent in all environments, some mechanism is necessary to bring the organism into action quickly in response to those dangers; hence a hair-trigger fight-or-flight response.
Perhaps this is why you see certain people going from a calm and peaceful state to one of raging, irrational frenzy in a split instant, with no rhyme or reason to the process.
Unfortunately, since I'm not a PhD there is no way to test this hypothesis. But I think it's interesting nonetheless. (And I'm only sixty-eight.)
I’ve policed and coached in primarily African American communities for decades. I can tell you that folks in that community seem to be way more apt to have explosive emotional outbursts triggered by run of the mill events, than in the other communities I’ve worked in.
I can tell you that I’ve seen more fights than I can imagine over percieved “disrespect” than you can believe.
I don’t know if it’s genetic or cultural, but it exists and is a problem.
“I think some PhD guy should do the research and develop something called the ‘lit-fuse’ factor, where you can assess the quick-to-react mentality of a person.”
Somebody has... Watch this.
https://www.amren.com/videos/2021/04/its-more-than-iq/
I already have that test.
I meet someone new, and I ask some very tough questions or make some statement. For example. I’ll look at some guy and tell him that Islam is evil, it’s a cult of death. Then I’ll gauge their reaction.
The downside is, sometimes people want to fight heh.