Biden Says About 10 to 15 Percent of Americans Are Not Very Good People – The New York Times

WASHINGTON Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told a group of black supporters on Thursday night that most Americans were good people who think the nation can be improved, while also declaring that there are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people.

Mr. Biden offered his estimate during remarks in which he spoke about the importance of a president setting a positive example for the nation on racial issues. He accused President Trump of dividing the country while pledging that, as president, he would not.

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Well, Biden’s correct, obviously. But just where is that benighted 10 to 15 percent. Some old modelling studies estimated about 5 percent of the general population is sociopathic, pretty much bad by definition. Ten percent seems a bit high. Presumably moral goodness is normally distributed since it’s presumably the product of many different independent variables. It would be interesting to learn if tall or short people, fat or thin people etc., tended to be more or less moral. It turns out economists are much more moral than English professors, which I find easy to believe.