Re: trump's latest musings on what he thinks is an IQ test but the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is actually a test for cognitive decline, whatever the cause may be, Alzheimer's, car accident, traumatic brain injury...
https://wapo.st/423Rq7W
(I hope that's a gift link)
In my 30 years as a transcriptionist, I created MCA reports weekly and became very familiar with them. I knew there was more than one version (apparently three) and I supposed there could have been changes after I retired but one of my suspicions was correct. There is no whale in the MCA.
I typed so many, I was able to get my serial 7s almost to 0, (ok, teens) without a mistake. You only got credit for getting the first three right, no extra points for getting further, but the doctors would let you go as long as you wanted.
And I never saw any type of mathematical problem as complicated as trump described because, other than the clockface test, the rest was oral.
Also too, the three (not five) words you have to remember are not supposed to be related, i.e. man/woman/person or camera/tv. A while back, I was getting concerned about my memory and a friend told me to visualize whatever I needed to memorize and it works wonderfully. I had my first MCA test last fall as part of my wellness exam. When they got to my three words, (which I still remember, thank you friend) they were kitchen, garden and painting. So I visualized looking out my kitchen window into the garden and seeing someone painting. Keep that in mind when you guys inevitably have yours.
A ‘whale’ of a tale: Trump continues to distort cognitive test he took