I wish it was this easy. I wish there were short cuts. 1. I had a business partner once who has a wife that I do think highly of, and who made me ignore a mill

I wish it was this easy. I wish there were short cuts. 1. I had a business partner once who has a wife that I do think highly of, and who made me ignore a million red flags. But at the end of the day he turned out to be the exact sc*mbag that any neutral observer would have said he is from day one. We separated and he tried hard take down the company with him, purely out of spite. Complete POS. Unfortunately will have to file the spouse-test under useless metric. 2. Nobody who's not been living under a rock for the last 30 years is gonna make this mistake in 2023. 3. Bad characters lie about a lot of things, including their childhood. 4. The only true test on this list. 5. As said in another answer, this is '60s psychobabble. 6. Unfortunately I myself haven't seen any reliable correlation between this and the true character of people. 7. The dumb bad characters get caught cheating. The smart ones will make sure to appear extremely correct about all the small stuff, just so you'd never suspect them of anything bad when it comes to the more important things in life. 8. Maybe that's true in some cases but you know who completely thrives in unexpected social situations: psychopaths. This is because all the normal people show some amount of insecurity and vulnerability in these kinds of scenarios and a skilled psychopath will leverage that to manipulate people.