Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
    • KnitWit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It isn’t even an iq test, it’s a cognitive test. For dementia and stroke patients. Questions are things like ‘place the numbers where they go on an analog clock.’

      • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I wonder if they’re going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

        People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock

          To be fair, it was mostly that one idiot who thought it should disqualify students from sitting exams…

          Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

          And I agree. Just like analog clocks and indeed internal combustion engine cars in general, manual transmissions are technology that used to be the norm but is now old fashioned, unnecessary except for rare use cases, and fast approaching obsolete.