The good news is that it’s not a measure of intelligence.
You remind me of a joke…
So one Sunday afternoon, down on the farm, an old lady is sitting with her toddler grandson over a picturebook. “What’s that sitting there wagging its tail little Johnny?” “Thassa DOG Granny” “Well done! And Over there drinking a saucer of milk?” “Issa CAT!”
And so it goes until they come to the picture of a cow. Little Johnny sits and frowns. He says nothing. And Granny is deeply concerned. This is a farm kid! How does he not know what a cow is? “Come on Johnny! You must know that one!”
Little Johnny looks up with tears in his eyes. “Oh Granny. I don’t know if it’s a Frisian or a Hereford!”
It’s very easy to tell what type of rhino it is. If Donald Trump would rent to it, it’s a white rhino.
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is a screening test for a wide range of very basic cognitive disorders arising from things like Alzheimer’s, ALS, or traumatic brain injury. It is most certainly NOT an intelligence test, and the only remote relationship it has to intelligence (as Stephen Colbert pointed out the other night) is that anyone who is so stupid and clueless that they actually brag about “acing” it is definitely not intelligent. AIUI Trump further bragged that some of the questions were “very hard”, but he aced them anyway. No, the questions are all on roughly the same level as a doctor asking you, when you regain consciousness from a bad accident, “do you know where you are? Do you know what day and year it is?”.
Although, yes, some of the questions, like identifying the animals, are tough. I imagine that after our heroic stable genius identified the dog and the unicorn, he might have had some trouble with the funny-looking horsie.
I asked my brother who is quite knowledgeable about such things and he agrees with SCAdian and SmartAleq that the hooked lip definitely makes it a Diceros bicornis.
Vince Lombardi is reported to have told his players:
“When you get to the end zone, act like you’ve been there before.”
I think it’s the same thing with a cognitive test. If you pass one, don’t act like it’s the first time, even if it is.
Trump’s just proud of himself because he didn’t have to pay someone else to take the test for him.
It’s in the NAMING section, so I went with Alvin.
I’ve given cognitive tests to a lot of people. Sometimes families request they be given. This is usually because the person is getting lost in their own neighbourhood, thinks it is 1974, or cannot recognize family members. So it’s a pretty distinguished group.
ManBearPig-Camera-TV
Did you get those in order? Because nobody gets them in order. Just so freaking impressive.
The middle animal is a gorilla dressed up as a rhinoceros because he’s going to a costume ball.
There should be some question about coconuts and Swallows.
Redundantly repitititive name there.
Yes I got that, but that’s not what the instructions says, which is to copy that cube. You get a cube sure enough, but not a copy of the displayed one.
I think copying the cube is an unrelated second problem. But it’s a bit confusing, it’s poorly laid out.
ETA: I’m not sure how you’re seeing a cube come out of the first one.
Uh-oh…
Huh?.
This is a slightly reworked version of something I posted in another forum
So I was looking at that cognitive test that Trump allegedly aced, and listening to him ramble about it in a Fox News interview. And I think I can make a REALLY good case that he really didn’t pass the test.
Probably the hardest part is the 5 word recall. That’s what he has been bragging about.
About halfway through the test, the doctor reads off five words and asks you to repeat them.
Face velvet church daisy red are the five words used in the sample test, but they may use 5 other unrelated words. I don’t think the tests are always identical. When I was looking for images I saw foreign language versions of the test that had different words and animals.
After you repeat the five words they continue through several other exercises designed to test attention, language and abstraction
After those exercises ( about 5 minutes worth) you are asked to remember and repeat those 5 words
The question directly before the request to repeat the words for the second time is an abstraction test.
In that test they give you two words and you need to find the similarity. They do this for two sets of words. Train-bicycle and watch -ruler are the pairs they give in the sample test. But I’m thinking that the alternate word set used in Trump’s test was man-woman and camera -TV. The answer to the first set would be, of course, person.
In a Fox News interview, Trump babbled about the memory portion of the test and his great memory and how the answers were person man woman TV camera. These are not unrelated words and are therefore probably not the 5 words he was asked to recall. But they could be the words used for the association test - man woman, TV camera - and person would be the answer for the first pair.
Here’s what I think happened. I think when the doctor asked him to repeat the 5 words he wrongly repeated the five words from the last question he heard - man woman person camera TV - instead of the correct ones. Do you think Dr. Jackson would tell him he’s wrong? So I don’t think he even passed the damn test and I bet he messed up other parts, too. I bet he can’t count backwards by 7’s, either. And frankly, I honestly don’t think he could identify a rhinoceros, unless his kid killed one recently.
Seriously, if he didn’t pass would “Dr”. Ronny Jackson tell anyone? Announce to the liberal Trump-hating media that Trump flunked his cognitive test? I bet he wouldn’t even tell Trump. He would just mark everything Trump said as correct. If Trump looked at a picture of a lion and called it an elephant, Jackson would say … “Yep, that’s an elephant. You are a genius, Mr. President. No one has ever gotten that I e right before.