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but ask him how hard is it to pass a cognitive test and why some people get tested more often.
Pretty simple really, Doctors will give a patient a cognitive test if they feel a person is slipping mentally.
People receive multiple tests when Doctors want to gauge how fast they're falling into the rabbit's hole.
Keep in mind a cognitive test is so simple a 4th grader would pass it, IQ4.7 talks like it's as hard as an
entrance exam to get into Harvard.
Now you have some simple questions to ask Rs you know.........
"You know how easy it is to pass a cognitive test?"
"Why does he always brag about passing a cognitive test?"
"Who do Doctors give multiple cognitive tests to?" etc, etc
Easy subject to talk to Rs about without them getting mad about "fake news" , they have heard often how
good he is at passing cognitive tests, here's another conversation starter.........
"trump sure is good at passing cognitive tests isn't he?"
If every Democrat could change one R's voting habits, there wouldn't be any Rs getting elected.
Wonder if anyone makes cognitive test T-shirts? " Circle the kitty "
MineralMan
(150,469 posts)include a basic cognitive test. Typically, you'll be asked to draw a clock face showing a specific time and to remember a few words.
It's a standard part of the wellness exam. There's also a questionnaire designed to assess your current mental state, and questions about whether you have fallen in the past year.
Thunderbeast
(3,750 posts)I have become really good at counting backwards from 99 by sevens.
MineralMan
(150,469 posts)I've been going there for years, and it's always the same, maybe 10 words, from which they pick three or four. I repeat the three or four mentally a couple of times and then feed them back, when asked. Then, I usually tell the PA which three words she asked for last year. She laughs.
I haven't had to do the backwards by seven thing, but I can do it quickly. I practiced it a few years ago. I could do it anyhow, but why not just rattle them off?
Bottom line is that those tests are not in any way conclusive of anything. They're just a guide to check whether more info is needed.
I see the same doctor every year for that visit. It's been almost 25 years now. It's a very cursory sort of examination. It's all I need, though, even at 80. If I have an issue, I'll make an appointment to address it. Otherwise, I see the doctor once a year. That will change, no doubt, at some point.
KS Toronado
(22,701 posts)Plenty of different styles most common is along these lines........

Kid Berwyn
(22,609 posts)A tenant in one of his buildings, the doctor did him a major. Which, when lesser Americans were drafted to fight a civil war to protect colonial mineral extraction for the greater glory of Wall Street, was most helpful to the man known today as traitor and wingman to Americas greatest child sex predator.
The Roux Comes First
(2,103 posts)Breezing right past multiple infidelities, bankruptcies, criminal indictments, and etc., etc.
We have as a country, alas, been the perp in an astonishing number of cases of capital punishment for lesser crimes than this vermin has repeatedly committed. We must not forget that. He is the guilty oracle of projection who put the words out there: "lock him up!"
KS Toronado
(22,701 posts)KS Toronado
(22,701 posts)of him taking one of the tests, getting frustrated at the cognitive test and yelling at the Doctors that he's
a stable genius, "so give me an A+++ or lose your job at Walter Reed."