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Psycho Test

cnorman18

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cnorman18
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I just got this by email, and I'm going to post it WITH the answer. You'll see why.

I've said before that this forum has the smartest people I've ever seen all in one place, but I really, REALLY hope that nobody gets this right.

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.

This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.

No one I know has gotten it right, including me.

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

(Give this some thought before you answer). SCROLL DOWN.



























Answer: She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath.

This was a test that a famous American psychologist used to find out if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly.

[I don't know if that's true; this is the email as I received it. --Charles]

If you didn't answer the question correctly, good for you.

If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my email list, unless that will tick you off; then I'll just be extra nice to you from now on....
 
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I was actually asked this by I guy I work with (I got it wrong), He said HE got it right when he was asked it. I dont doubt him!
 
Well, I didn't come up with the correct answer but it could be just that I'm a particularly dim psychopath.
 
Surely this is just another trite email forward? Unless it originated with some sort of professional/institution, I would take it with a considerable pinch of salt. There's no silver bullet way to determine meaningfully whether somebody's a "psychopath" or not.
 
Well well, Thats interesting, Considering my coworker said this is some actual test psychologist's use sometimes, and said he was asked this by his brother in law who works as a criminal psychologist or something like that. heh.
 
Oh, dear... I got it 'right'.

Admittedly, I just got back from the puzzles section (trying to solve the catch phrase), and I did spend several minutes reading and re-reading the question, looking for what possible motive could have been already told to us in the confines of the question, and the 'funeral' was the only thing that seemed to link her and her 'dream man', and then it just followed...

But I already knew I was one sick puppy.
 
I answered that the dream guy was the sister's husband. Nothing in the question said that the woman and the sister she killed were close or knew anything about each other's lives. You might not meet your sister's husband until a family event like a funeral. As a matter of fact, the killing thing kind of suggests they weren't close to each other at all.

I suppose that this means I'm well adjusted, even though killing your sister in order to steal her husband is a pretty insane idea.
 
Of course, if she didn't have the dream guy's number, she wouldn't have her sister's number either. This would make killing the sister extremely hard to pull off.
 
First I thought that the man was her sister's lover.

Then I realized the truth. The man was her sister after her sex change!

So what's my psychological profile?
 
Big Les said:
Surely this is just another trite email forward? Unless it originated with some sort of professional/institution, I would take it with a considerable pinch of salt. There's no silver bullet way to determine meaningfully whether somebody's a "psychopath" or not.
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Blood on the shirt, knife in hand, body in the trunk ???? :)
 
I answered "To Impress Jody Foster".... but that made no sense. I knew (as you always know) from the "this comes from a professional" nonsense that it was just a "One Minute Mystery", and didn't do the link to the setting - a funeral...

I figured it had something to do with the fact that the victim (sister) was hitherto not mentioned in the tale. At least I'm not as sick ;) as Hokulele and Tsukasa Buddha - I drew a blank.... (and besides, I'm impatient and scrolled down pretty early to see the answer).
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
First I thought that the man was her sister's lover.

Then I realized the truth. The man was her sister after her sex change!

So what's my psychological profile?
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I made the same conclusions! So with you Hokulele at least I know I'm in good company - crazy but cool. Sweet.

I also thought that maybe the whole story was a red herring and she killed her sister because she had terminal cancer and she wanted to be euthanized.
 
I thought about it for a second and answered it correctly. Rats, I'm a psychopath. Either that or I have an appreciation for black humor.

Though, I do think that the question kind of leads you to that conclusion, and it's implied that the obvious answer (i.e. the sister had an affair with the man, or such) isn't the correct one.
 
PBTree said:
Blood on the shirt, knife in hand, body in the trunk ???? :)
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You knew what I meant ;) I can't believe I didn't hit Snopes for this "psycho test" one, but it didn't certainly didn't pass my sniff test. Textbook junk email "meme" of the sort you used to get passed around via photocopier or hit with by your colleagues at the pub. For example, an old boss of mine thought he was clever by wheeling out this one:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/dalai.asp

Ironically enough he also backed me when I "replied to all" with a Snopes link re a particularly misogynistic urban legend email sent to all staff by a colleague.
 
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I got it right. For me it was the only logical answer based within the confines of the question. So I am a logical psycho.
 
Hey, it's not like I came up with killing the sister to solve the problem of the mystery man. The scenario stated it! All this means is that I can understand psychos, not that I am one.
 
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