Trump thinks the screening for Memory Loss was an IQ test.🤣

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Dude thinks the screening for Memory Loss was an IQ test.🤣
I, too can draw 2:10 on a clock, remember 5 random words and repeat them in order, ID 3 animals. Einstein he's not. Dangerously demented, hell ya.

I genuinely think that AOC or Crockett should call his bluff here -- if Trump takes the same test, on live TV. See how fast he shuts up.

— James Downie (@jamescdownie.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T20:17:37.211Z

[Irish_Dem]

1. A formal IQ battery is much different than a simple memory test.

Anyone can administer a short memory test, while an IQ test requires a great deal of training
to administer and evaluate.

[WarGamer]

8. And all not very valuable...

I had one in my Senior year of High School in the cafeteria... I had one in Grad School and one that was MENSA administered on a whim by a co-worker at a hotel.

But it's not particularly useful... as an Engineer I can judge the intelligence of a person just by listening to them explain how something works...

Practical Intelligence... not IQ.

[Irish_Dem]

9. In clinical use, we must use science based testing to make a diagnosis of accurate IQ.

[WarGamer]

10. yes of course...

But I guess the "person you want to be with on the desert island after the plane crash"

might not have the highest IQ... but have the most practical intelligence.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes but an IQ test measures many areas of intelligence.

It is broken up into many subtests and would capture some of the kind of intelligence you are describing.
We also have many vocational tests as well that capture innate practical abilities. These tests identify verbal and
non verbal intelligence.

Psychologists have a very sophisticated battery of tests available to measure human functioning, including intelligence.
Not just academic learning, but innate intelligence.

These tests were developed at the start of WWII to help the government identify military recruits' skills, abilities, talents
so they could best be utilized during the war. So for example you could identify a man who didn't have a high school education
but he could put an engine together quickly and correctly, etc.

And there has been extensive research since then to perfect these tests.

But yes if we were stranded on a deserted island we would for sure want to be with people with certain skill sets
and innate practical intelligence.

This would actually be an interesting test question if I were teaching a testing class, what abilities and raw intelligence
would you test for to identify the best person to be marooned on an island with.

[WarGamer]

13. It's an Engineer's mindset...

By necessity we're problem solvers and logicians.

Doctors, Lawyers... for example, tend to be specialists in specific areas and frankly idiots in others.

In my former career we had Engineers working with M.D.'s and Ph.D's... (BioTech) so I got to watch and spend time with many.

An Engineer would change his oil in his Land Rover over the weekend, the Doctor would take it to the shop... in fact the Doctor or Lawyer might not even KNOW there's oil inside an engine lol...

I've been in meetings with Ph.D's who can't read an Engineering schematic or can't comprehend how something is assembled or disassembled.

[Abolishinist]

2. His IQ is 92.

45 + 47

[electricmonk]

7. More like 58

45+47-34

[Permanut]

3. So he didn't know what kind of test he was taking..

I submit that that DOES say something about his IQ.

As does the claim that he "aced it". There is no such thing as acing an IQ test.

He should get a Dunning Kruger award. Or a trophy-he could spray it gold and put it in the Oval Office.

[riversedge]

4. So, Trump says the WH will give AOC and Crockett and IQ test. LOL. Trump gets more looney each day!!

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Who knew one could ace an IQ test?

[riversedge]

6. I bet Crockett and AOC are having good laugh.

[Emile]

11. No kidding! The whole world knows he is an idiot.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. I'd be willing to bet both Jasmine Crockett and AOC could qualify for Mensa without breaking a sweat.

(Criterion for Mensa membership is only top 2%. You think a Dem Senator isn't smarter than 49 out of 50 people ? Repugs are more likely to be at the low end of the curve.)

[Torchlight]

15. Every time President Pedo flaps his gums, an angel gets its wings.