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They make you draw a clock. From memory. Do you know how many people know what a clock looks like? They say nobody does. But I do, I can draw the best, most beautiful clock faces, I can put the numbers in all the best places. Hands? Sometimes I draw 1, sometimes 4 even 5.
With analog clocks becoming less and less common, they're going to have to come up with a new test for that.
People with less experience of analog clocks are naturally going to have a more difficult time drawing one from memory, even if they're not cognitively impaired at all.
Are they, though? I have a feeling that phenomenon peaked in the late 90s or early 2000s, and ever since digital clocks became nothing special anymore, it's been just a question of preference.
They do (did?) teach how to read a mechanical clock in schools, but not sure if US schools are doing so hot right now.
They make you draw an assault rifle.
If you draw a bullpup they ship you off to Austria.
That ... sounds really great, actually?
Excellent wordplay!
That's what all the shooters've claimed, sure. That school "made me do it". 🥲
Learning a subject once in school is very different to life time of using it with older people
US teenagers commonly don't know how to read analog clocks anymore, at least in my area (North Florida, so hopefully not representative of the country). In fact, I actually tried to use a similar cognitive test with a 13yo client just over a year ago and had to pivot because they had never learned how to tell time on an analog clock
My daughter in Orange county FL schools learned how to read one in 1st grade. Wonder if this is a school system issue.
How many things from 1st grade do you really remember if they are never really enforced on you anymore afterwards
I'd like to believe that I remember everything that was taught to me in 1st grade, even if I don't remember the lesson plans.
Most smartwatch faces have hands, many of them as the primary time display (some are mixed analog/digital).
For Android, at least, which are usually round watches.
I think they also use one that's a cube drawing test. I actually did it on a screener test for something else but I think the use it for dementia testing too - if lines are missing and the edges don't test it can indicate some visual/spatial decline I believe.
Are you serious?
Yeah. Were you not aware?
I watched my grandma take this test at 80 something. She did good on parts of it.
But the clock? She got the circle. But she bunched up the numbers and the hands. She knew how to read a old school analog clock, had helped me learn when I was a kid.
Because she was in the room and thought she nailed it, I didn't get a chance to know what that meant. (I also can't rule out she was gaslighting after because she was an decades long gaslighter extraordinaire)
I chalked it up to her eyesight at the time, as she was also slowly going blind.
Anyway... my point being, even knowing the analog clock isn't enough to pass this part.
https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test
Was it something like this? I don’t have the time or willpower to find more links but I think there’s a sliding scale of this effect.
It is much more likely that it was dementia related which looks different on the clock drawing test compare to a hemineglect. Often times there are to many numbers, not on the right places, outside the boundaries etc.
It was very similar to this!
New Doomsday Clock just dropped