the distribution is skewed towards the top 0.1%. According to "This American Life", the percentage of psychopaths* is higher amongst the wealthy and successful than the rest of society.

Not sure what the definition of wealthy and successful is though.

*I wrote sociopaths by accident, although there's some debate as to wether there's a difference between the two.

Also, what's with the down votes? What did I say..?

Right that was my point... that the top 0.1% would probably have more. How did you arrive at the ~1k number you did? By extrapolating from general population incidence of sociopaths? That only works with even distribution.

I wasn't being totally serious, but I calculated the top 0.1% of total US population, and then 4% of that, which is apparently the percentage of sociopaths/psychopaths for that section of society. The average across the entire US population is about 1%.