You win. The amount of times I've wished the real world had subtitles...

That's closed captioning

With the vague rules, I think you can have that bypass language barriers.

Ok, I change my answer.

Only if the words were intended for you to hear.

I say a lot under my breath to keep from bursting, but also keep from completely roasting the idiots I deal with daily.

It's a hypothetical question, so yeah. It can be whatever you want it to be. =)

We truly live in the worst timeline that this would even be considered.

Monkey paw's finger curls: You can see them. They're EVERYWHERE. People you thought you knew and loved have numbers greater than zero over their head. Despite your horror, you try to make use of the power to try to bring them to justice. No one believes you. You have the Cassandra's curse of the status quo. 'Steve? What are you talking about? He'd never do anything like that. Butter wouldn't melt. You should probably shut your mouth before we get offended about what you said about our friend and kick the shit out of you. Know what I mean?' You watch the news and see everyone who has a position of power over you and your loved ones has a non-zero number. You try to escape into fictional media but your favorite actors are non-zeroes, the author pictures in your favorite books show non-zeroes, the album sleeves of your favorite bands show non-zeroes.

Knowledge can be a burden.

What's the point though? We already know the worst offenders without this special power and not a fucking thing is being done about it.

Edit: I misunderstood the question. I thought it was for everyone to be able to see it. Yeah, this would be a good one to have to know who to avoid...

Jeeeesus Christ! I was thinking like “farts per day” or “no-blinker lane change count”. You’re going straight to the show.

The worst part would be knowing but unable to prove it.

Oh of course I'll play your game Rumplest... random stranger.

Tanis is a nice name.

Would it be their preferred name or legal name? What about people who go by different names in different contexts? For example, William at work, but Bill with friends & family? Or stage names? Or professional titles?

everyone would feel like they are working retail.

The "genuineness" statistic sounds like the sort of thing that would gradually drive me insane.

I'd probably end up staring into the mirror and seeing an abysmally low number for myself.

I love and hate this one, really a good monkey's paw one!

I can't tell if that would end up depressing the crap out of me or making me feel better about the world. My pessimistic brain tells me there are far more un-empathic people in the world than I'd like to acknowledge.

The only problem with this stat showing is that the fascists would know who to throw into the concentration camps.

This! You would be able to see who's trusting and caring? Perfect for scaming people all day, every day! I love it!

Oh awesome. I'd love something like that, and do think we need to kind of train every person to understand and analyze others empathy better. Because this is a major problem when selecting, voting or promoting people into position of power. Every time there is a competition for a promotion, the ones that care the least about anything but more power or money or influence will be statistically more likely to advance. The more self serving the better. So at the top end you have function sociopaths who are very adept at lying about themselves or even to themselves.

Detecting purely self-serving or greedy people would be awesome and should be taught and trained for in school as basic political education. You know like math or PT is taught and trained. And candidates for political power should be put through some kind of "psychological gauntlet" to make it at least more likely they show they care or believe in something besides gaining more power.

It might also be possible to create a kind of AI models to evaluate and analyze people seeking power. Like some sort of lie detector test observing every reaction and every word and tonal shift in a conversation with the machine. Something like the interrogation in Blade Runner or "The Expanse" Season 1. Of course a bit of a ludicrous idea.

Might be better to just pick someone at random, quite likely to get better world leaders like that.

But this remains a fundamental problem of any hierarchical system, no matter if capitalism or socialism. We are now in an age where humanity can easily destroy itself, and we have collectively chosen, or proven unable, to save ourselves from the existential danger of climate change. And despite our "advances in ethics" in general, we're still ruled by total shits. And no matter what system we choose the problem will persist. Lack of empathy is a very strong indicator for that.

Sorry for the long rant lol

FYI, I believe you use narcissist wrong, because generally they "weaponize empathy" to manipulate people. They absolutely need to maintain a false glamorous mirror image of their own ego (or they die) and will use all sorts of rationalizations or delusions to keep that up. From a young age they need to pretend and for that they need to read people very well. And as long as they see you as one of the awesome people they'll charm you, but if they see you as one of the shit people they'll flip and treat you like dirt. And no amount of time will change that lol.

I'd add in a modifier for people on the spectrum. Like, the number is low, but that's due to an underdeveloped social ability, not because they are sociopaths.

Put me in horny jail, but I think the world would be a better place if we could see a measure of how likely we could be mating partners.

I imagine everyone would be surprised by the number of 8's, 9's, and 10's.

We're very good at making friends when we try.

Sure they only have 4 hp but their hidden ap is high enough to tank whatever you think you can do.

or maybe between 0 and 1. that way it would be easier to see if the topic that I've decided is super interesting and won't shut up about is interesting to the to the other person as well. If I start seeing the number dropping quickly, time to change topics or just walk away.

No need for that because by definition it's only displayed above people's heads. You can tell someone isn't human if nothing is displayed over them.

Your eyes scan the room, skimming the numbers. Everyone is in their own conversation, 20, 35, 15, nothing promising until you spot an 85. Their back is turned but you make your way through the crowd to their side of the room. You say "Hey", and they turn, and as soon at they see you their number starts to drop. 75, 60 45, 10. Ouch, sometimes you wonder why you even try.

another thing: I think most people answering here aren't thinking about how it would feel to have the statistic they're choosing over their own heads.

They have this already. We're just not privy to what they gather from the masses.