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Strange answers to the psychopath test

28,711,377 views | Jon Ronson • TED2012

Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)

Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)

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Jon Ronson

Writer, filmmaker

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Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary filmmaker who dips into every flavor of madness, extremism and obsession.

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