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There are several orders of magnitude less people in C-suite positions than in MBA programs. If most needles are found in haystacks, it doesn't mean that haystacks consist mostly of needles.



"Over-representation" is also pretty vague and the leap to anything like "common" is completely unjustified. A paper co-authored by Hare (referenced below) cites a prevalence of 1.2% for "potential psychopathy" (couldn't find a number for strong psychopathy). So if 2% of C-level execs were exhibited potential psychopathy, then psychopathy would be way over-represented, but still quite uncommon.

http://www.hare.org/references/NeumannandHareJCCP2008.pdf

Just for completeness, another study found the prevalence even lower, at 6%.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252709...




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