I just recently watched a QI clip where they said they used to have a long list of questions to determine if someone was a narcissist, but they realized that they got the same accuracy from a single question, “Are you a narcissist?”
I assume this is like one of those “one lies, the other tells the truth” things and a narcissist would answer “no”. If I saw the QI episode, I’ve long since forgotten what was said about it.
FWIW, my response would be “oh god I hope not”, all the while fretting that I’ve been writing a lot of comments from the first person with lots of "I"s these days, which is a bit self-centred. I don’t have the brain power to rewrite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Another, slightly more cruel one is to find a perfectionist who thinks that perfectionism is an imperfection and ask them if they’re a perfectionist. A therapist accidentally short-circuited my brain with that one.)
I think the question is not 100% accurate. It’s just about as accurate as the previous list of questions was.
And IIRC, the explanation was that a narcissist would sort of be proud of their narcissism.
It was quite interesting ™ because she asked them the question before giving the explanation, and the ones who answered said, “Yes.” And then they tried to explain how most comedians had narcissistic motivations to get in front of a crowd of people, etc.
It almost seemed like a demonstration of the point Sandi was about to make.
I just recently watched a QI clip where they said they used to have a long list of questions to determine if someone was a narcissist, but they realized that they got the same accuracy from a single question, “Are you a narcissist?”
I assume this is like one of those “one lies, the other tells the truth” things and a narcissist would answer “no”. If I saw the QI episode, I’ve long since forgotten what was said about it.
FWIW, my response would be “oh god I hope not”, all the while fretting that I’ve been writing a lot of comments from the first person with lots of "I"s these days, which is a bit self-centred. I don’t have the brain power to rewrite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Another, slightly more cruel one is to find a perfectionist who thinks that perfectionism is an imperfection and ask them if they’re a perfectionist. A therapist accidentally short-circuited my brain with that one.)
I think the question is not 100% accurate. It’s just about as accurate as the previous list of questions was.
And IIRC, the explanation was that a narcissist would sort of be proud of their narcissism.
It was quite interesting ™ because she asked them the question before giving the explanation, and the ones who answered said, “Yes.” And then they tried to explain how most comedians had narcissistic motivations to get in front of a crowd of people, etc.
It almost seemed like a demonstration of the point Sandi was about to make.