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The always bragging about having to go take cognitive tests is so fucking funny.
Yes, exactly this. AOC hasn't taken a cognitive test because she doesn't need to. He doesn't realize that every time he brags about passing the cognitive test he reminds us all that he's super fucking old.
Reminds me of Sheldon Cooper saying "I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested"
I've aced cognitive tests, the ones to see if you're a genius, not to test for dementia. But I don't go around talking about it because I'm not a loser. Bragging about taking dementia tests is wild.
They also probably didn't make you keep taking them as an adult. I got a few of the "hey you're probably neurodivergent let's see how smart you are to better classify you" tests as a kid, but at 30 I haven't had one in a long time because I'm 30 and that would be unnecessary.
I suppose there's Mensa for adults, but again didn't do that because I'm not a loser, and intelligence is what you do with it not the results of a test. I never bankrupted a casino with my intelligence, much less six times.
“Everyone thinks I’m fucking crazy and senile, but I’m not, I swear! And you have only my word to take for it!”
https://files.catbox.moe/snar8z.mp4
Here are some sample questions
So yeah... we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.
3-7 seem like anyone can do it, the first depends on the amount of time it takes. I might forget them after a few minutes of thinking of other questions. 100 counting down by 7's should be easy, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do something like 100, 93, 86, 79, 72, 65, 58, 51... And while feeling anxious question myself if I just said 51 or 61 or something stupid. But that's just test taking nervousness.
It has nothing to do with the answer being wrong, it's how you get there. If you fail to subtract seven, realize your mistake, and correct it you have already passed the test. People with dementia will either start to count down by the wrong amount, start counting up, stuff like that. You are testing whether they can abstract verbal instructions and maintain a consistent train of thought while performing trivial calculations.
Counting down on your fingers one by one and only saying every seventh number would be considered a perfect score once you make it to about 63 if you don't lose track of what you are doing or start forgetting numbers.
Okay so I wanted to try the fruits to see. It says 8-12 fruits gets you 1 point, 13+ gets you an extra point, less than 8, 0 points. (1 minute to name them)
So I started pretty easy and then started questioning myself:
Let's say watermelon, orange, tangerine, peach, strawberry, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, blackberry, blueberry, apple, jackfruit, mango, lime, lemon... But I didn't think of lemon/lime immediately, my brain started saying use Tomato and Cucumber as they both hold their seeds internally so they are "fruits".
I get that they would likely count but when the pressures on, I imagine I could still fuck up something like that haha
None of that matters. You'll see when you get older and they start giving you tests like that.
ACED IT!!!! 🥴
It does make me chuckle when people are too dumb to realize they're snitching on themselves.
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