Donald Trump has divulged details of a cognitive test he "aced" -- including a five-word memory challenge he said proved he had the "mental stamina" to lead the U.S.
"Person. Woman. Man Camera. TV," the U.S. president recited [...]
In the article linked from that article.
The Canadian doctor behind the cognitive test Donald Trump recently took says the U.S. president's results are "normal performance," adding that the assessment is not an intelligence or an IQ test.
It's just weird how disconnected he is from reality sometimes.
The whole question I had around that was; what would make your physician choose to give you a cognition test? The answer is; a reasonable suspicion that you are showing signs of cognitive decline, i.e. dementia. So: he was bragging that "my doctor thought I might have dementia, but he gave me a test and I showed that my brain is broadly functional".
It's like that Eugene Mirman story where when he was a kid he remembers his parents getting a letter from the school saying "Eugene does not appear to have a learning disability." Which oddly enough is one of the most sure indicators that you do in fact appear to have a learning disability.
Ehh, they had a lady follow me around for a week in grade school because they thought I was slow. It was a whole thing. At the end of it they ended up putting me in middle-school reading and math classes, turned out I was just really bored with the work they gave us. My mom gave me the letter they got when I was older.
Thankfully many schools now actually test for this starting in kindergarten or first grade and move kids into advanced classes to keep them challenged. Bored, unchallenged kids get in trouble, so finding them as early as possible and keeping them engaged helps everybody win.
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u/boxsterguy 15d ago
There was also this. That's "I love lamp" levels of ridiculousness.