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I wish I could trust The Psychopath Test

Ronson lacks rigour

Jon Ronson is a very good storyteller. He's that bloke wot wrote The Psychopath Test, where he goes and chats with people who adorn their ludicrous mansions with ludicrously large numbers of tiger statues. I read nearly the whole book in one sitting, because I was gripped and fascinated.

I'm also not convinced I learned much about psychopaths.

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Matt Cox: Once the leader of Rock Paper Shotgun's Youth Contingent, Matt is an expert in multiplayer games, deckbuilders and battle royales. He occasionally pops back into the Treehouse to write some news for us from time to time, but he mostly spends his days teaching small children how to speak different languages in warmer climates.
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