Crantag wrote:The simple answer is, potentially yes. (Though especially if they practiced.)
The test is designed to indicate potential signs of dementia. The test isn't conclusive. It is a pretty long stretch to attempt to suggest that such a brief test would be sufficient for properly diagnosing dementia.
But, none of this even relates to my original point. My principal purpose is to strive for accuracy, by properly identifying the test as it was.
The only further initial implications I drew would relate to the futility of attempting to hold up this test as an intelligence test, or even a 'cognitive' test, both of which it is not. This makes the president's suggestion that it was a cognitive test, dishonest.
As an additional caveat. One might read additional 'eye-brow raising' observations into the very act of the president then bragging about such a test, in the manner in which he did.
Than prove it, or this is a false statement.
Ok, if you want.
First of all, things like dementia don't get "disproved" they get detected and proven. No one has to go around disproving that they have something wrong with them mentally, they get tested to try and detect if there's something wrong with them. This is an important distinction because it's very hard to "prove a negative". For example, if I asked you to prove that you're not a troll, how would you do that? You basically can't. That is just how things work, you have a presumption (such as the presumption that someone does not have dementia) you don't try to make people prove a negative.
Second, I'm curious just how you came across your expertise on dementia tests. Why should anyone take Crantag seriously on this? I too am not a cognitive specialist of any kind but I can operate under the presumption that if the White House doctor appointed by Obama gives Trump a 30/30 on a cognitive test, he either thinks that Trump's cognitive abilities are fine, or he believes his own test is garbage and would never say it, or he is lying for Trump (and by extension since he was appointed by Obama, we would therefore have to accept the possibility that he was lying about Obama's health as well).
Third, your idea that Trump was allowed to practice for the cognitive test before he took it is based entirely upon speculation and basically impinges the credibility of Obama's appointed doctor (see my second argument).
Fourth, Trump probably wouldn't have bragged about a simple cognitive test if certain people hadn't been arguing that he would likely fail a test of his mental abilities. So he goes and takes such a test and apparently scores 100% on it and then he brags. If people hadn't been going on about it, he probably wouldn't have taken the test in the first place. So you are basically treating a situation people like you created as supporting evidence. That's garbage.