Ingo Zettler at the University of Copenhagen has spent a decade refining D, the Dark Factor of Personality — one number for how readily a person harms others for personal gain. In PNAS this year his team showed D varies by US state, tracking local social toxicity.
Fine. I pulled the S&P 500 headquarters list against the top-D states. Texas, Delaware registrations, the Houston petrochemical belt. Weighted by market cap, I get 0.7 Hitlers per index point. I did the arithmetic. Nobody at Copenhagen ran this because nobody wanted the answer.
Meanwhile Charles Spearman, dead since 1945, gets cited politely for the g factor while his intellectual grandchildren build a Nuremberg spreadsheet and shrug. Spearman also kept a coal fire lit in an unventilated study. I know who he was.
The number exists. The rankings exist. The quarterly reports exist.
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Based on the original article "Scientists Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses, And It's More Widespread Than Thought".
