Does it Matter if You Have a Light or Dark Personality? Which Personality Brings More Success? Should Schools Test Students for Personality?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "Experimental studies support the idea of a ‘successful’ dark personality, but only up to a point. One study found that people with psychopathic personality traits win more points on a negotiation task where they are required to compete with a partner, but fewer points on a task that involves cooperation. Those with dark traits are more likely to ‘defect’ in the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma task – an approach that means maximising your own outcome while duping the other participant. But their success in the real world is questionable. In corporate settings, those with dark personality traits are slightly more likely to emerge as leaders and are seen as charismatic but, when it comes to getting the job done, they tend to achieve less and are considered poor team players. Our recent study also found that political figures with dark personality traits are more likely to get elected and hold their positions, but other studies show that they are much poorer at getting legislation passed. Hedge fund managers with these traits generally obtain significantly lower financial returns on the investment funds they manage. Overall, individuals with dark traits engage in more counterproductive work behaviour, such as theft and abusive supervision. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don’t end up with higher average incomes than their peers with light personalities." This paragraph comes from an article on the website Psyche.  The article is titled: "Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed."  The article is written by Craig Neumann and Scott Barry Kaufman.  The article can be read here: https://psyche.co/ideas/are-people-with-dark-personality-traits-more-likely-to-succeed Zac and Don discuss how light and dark personalities impact people.  They talk about whether people with dark personalities can get ahead in life.  They talk about whether schools should test students for the color of their personality.  They also discuss the results that they each received after taking the pers