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.
They make you draw a clock. From memory. Do you know how many people know what a clock looks like?
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.
With analog clocks becoming less and less common
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.
Are you serious?
Yeah. Were you not aware?
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.
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
Had to check, this is actually real, and not a shitpost
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-boasts-about-brain-as-he-goes-on-manic-posting-spree/
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/generalneurology/118990
I read the second one and thought it was a good overview but upon clicking back it gave me a paywall so I grabbed another link in case it gives anyone trouble
"something which few people would be able to do very well,"
this is just a very apt example of how delusional he is about himself
! I took the Exam three times during my (“THREE!”) Terms as President.
There's nothing like a cognitive failure when boasting about cognitive excellence.
Daily beast is not an actual source of information.
Gotcha. I don't know anything about them, I was just trying to grab another link in case the first didn't work for people
Who is still looking for "early" signs in this patient?
It doesn't help he's faking being stupid all the time when he gets a hard question, and journalists/opposition just believes him.
They are eating cats and dogs is just one.
Your journalists are weak USA, they're weak.
That’s journalism when the outlets are all owned by hyper capitalists like Murdoch and Bezos.
Clickbait require advertisers and scoops require access so tough reporting isn’t an option and advertisers aren’t going to spend on ads at outlets the president doesn’t like when his fascist administration has been very public about attacking entities that don’t appease him.
It was a pretty big tell when he shook his own admiration’s hands when the king visited
