▲ 847 ▼ Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results (people.com) submitted 10 months ago by DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 115 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago (3 children) There is some clip from this where he's like "Hippo, lion, tiger. Crocket couldnt do that. It gets very hard at 10." Bruh he's literally being asked to list just any fucking animal he can. Like... this is a test for 3yos. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (1 child) I've taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deafboy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago And I think it's about time we do something about it! permalink fedilink source parent [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) You had the spirit of the quote: "The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions." He's naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him! Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* It would be literally the most hilarious in the history of US politics if it wasn't such a horrible reality we're in. If you wrote something this absurd into a book, your editor would make you rewrite it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago It's actually a test for dementia patients, to gauge how severe their disease is. That he's being asked to take it at all is... not good. Though I'm not really sure if I would prefer him lucid or impaired. It's not like he was a good person when he was in full command of his faculties. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (1 child) I've taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deafboy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago And I think it's about time we do something about it! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago And I think it's about time we do something about it! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) You had the spirit of the quote: "The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions." He's naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him! Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* It would be literally the most hilarious in the history of US politics if it wasn't such a horrible reality we're in. If you wrote something this absurd into a book, your editor would make you rewrite it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* It would be literally the most hilarious in the history of US politics if it wasn't such a horrible reality we're in. If you wrote something this absurd into a book, your editor would make you rewrite it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago It's actually a test for dementia patients, to gauge how severe their disease is. That he's being asked to take it at all is... not good. Though I'm not really sure if I would prefer him lucid or impaired. It's not like he was a good person when he was in full command of his faculties. permalink fedilink source parent