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Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results (people.com)

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 118 points 2 days 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.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

And I think it's about time we do something about it!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days 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.