{"id":43923,"date":"2020-10-04T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43923"},"modified":"2020-10-03T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T13:55:21","slug":"qotd-what-everyone-always-suspected-about-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/qotd-what-everyone-always-suspected-about-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: What everyone always suspected about Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A study shows that the greatest concentration of psychopaths is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blakehounshell\/status\/1010507916854644736\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in Washington, DC<\/a>. This is a contest in which it isn&#8217;t even close, as <em>Politico<\/em> informs us. But then again, you knew that, right?<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Murphy, an economist at Southern Methodist University, &#8220;matched up the &#8216;constellation of disinhibition, boldness and meanness&#8217; that marks psychopathy with a previously existing map of the states&#8217; predominant personality traits, he found that dense, coastal areas scored highest by far \u2013 with Washington dominant among them. &#8216;The District of Columbia is measured to be far more psychopathic than any individual state in the country,&#8217; Murphy writes in the paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That explains an awful lot, now doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Justin Raimondo, <a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2018\/06\/24\/washington-d-c-the-epicenter-of-crazy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Washington, D.C. \u2013 The Epicenter of Crazy&#8221;, <em>AntiWar.com<\/em><\/a>, 2018-06-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study shows that the greatest concentration of psychopaths is in Washington, DC. This is a contest in which it isn&#8217;t even close, as Politico informs us. But then again, you knew that, right? Ryan Murphy, an economist at Southern Methodist University, &#8220;matched up the &#8216;constellation of disinhibition, boldness and meanness&#8217; that marks psychopathy with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,41,13],"tags":[906,139,985],"class_list":["post-43923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bqr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60680,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923\/revisions\/60680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}