The official estimate of people with NPD is 1%. I bet it’s really much higher because that figure only counts narcissists who have been officially diagnosed.
But let’s just use that 1% for now. If there are 7 billion people in the world, that means there are 70 million narcs walking on earth.
That’s really scary.
Lucky Otters Haven 
…the horror…THE. HORROR.
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lol!
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Reblogged this on galesmind and commented:
I don’t even want to think about the sociopaths.
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Wait… I think the math on that figure may be off by a decimal point. I could very well be wrong, though. Mathematics is not my strong point.
Check out this world population clock, if you want to see something scary:
http://www.census.gov/popclock/ 😀
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Jeez, apparently grammar isn’t my strong point, either: “Mathematics IS” — that probably ought to say Mathematics ARE….”
Sometimes life is just too hard, with all the grammar rules and math formulas….
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You are right. I’m bad with numbers that large, so I googled it– it should be 70 million so I added an extra zero. Better than 700 million but it’s still a damn lot of narcs.
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So you corrected the number, I see. I was sort of hoping you would just delete this post and then all my messed up comments would disappear. 😉
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According to the world population clock, there is birth every 8 seconds, on average. If people with NPD really do comprise 1% of the population, that means we get another narcissist with every 100 births. That me, if my less than average math skills are correct, that a new narcissist is forever 13.333 minutes.
Hey, maybe there’s something to that unlucky #13 superstition.
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Eek I meant to say there is 1 birth every 8 seconds. I need to proof before I post.
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Ok I just went back and reread my other comments here…. and my tablet has apparently been typing stuff I did not type. Spell correct is incorrect. It was supposed to say a new narcissist is born every 13.333 minutes… not forever!
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The lucky number 13 lol
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There are people with different degrees of narcissism, going from very little to very much… so while it might feel right in a seductive way, stating some flat percentage of narcissists vs. nonnarcissists is arbitrary and inaccurate.
I also see that you didn’t have a response to my last comment at the end of this discussion –
It’s rare to see you left speechless!
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I don’t even think 1% is right because most narcissists are never diagnosed.
But anyway, no I wasn’t ignoring your comment, I just found it now because you pointed it out. I never saw it before. Let me read it and then reply.
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Your blog is becoming too successful!
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How do you know?
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