All cheap detection methods could be fooled easily. It’s like with that old meme “if someone is lying to you, they will subconsciously avoid looking into your eyes”, which everyone has already heard, so of course today every liar would look into your eyes.
I see two possible angles of attack:
a) Make a correct model of sociopathy. Don’t imagine sociopaths to be “like everyone else, only much smarter”. They probably have some specific weakness. Design a test they cannot pass, just like a colorblind person cannot pass a color blindness test even if they know exactly how the test works. Require passing the test for all positions of power in your organization.
b) If there is a typical way sociopaths work, design an environment so that this becomes impossible. For example, if it is critical for manipulating people to prevent their communication among each other, create an environment that somehow encourages communication between people who would normally avoid each other. (Yeah, this sounds like reversing stupidity. Needs to be tested.)
All cheap detection methods could be fooled easily. It’s like with that old meme “if someone is lying to you, they will subconsciously avoid looking into your eyes”, which everyone has already heard, so of course today every liar would look into your eyes.
I see two possible angles of attack:
a) Make a correct model of sociopathy. Don’t imagine sociopaths to be “like everyone else, only much smarter”. They probably have some specific weakness. Design a test they cannot pass, just like a colorblind person cannot pass a color blindness test even if they know exactly how the test works. Require passing the test for all positions of power in your organization.
b) If there is a typical way sociopaths work, design an environment so that this becomes impossible. For example, if it is critical for manipulating people to prevent their communication among each other, create an environment that somehow encourages communication between people who would normally avoid each other. (Yeah, this sounds like reversing stupidity. Needs to be tested.)