• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The amazing thing about that idiocy mostly flew under the radar at the time:

    According to neurologists, in the test he was bragging about (aside from being extremely easy because it’s meant to screen for dementia), those would not have been the words.

    The point of the 5 words portion is that the words are never related, because that would defeat the purpose of the memory test. They’re always carefully selected unrelated words, like daisy clock giraffe piano door.

    He very obviously did not remember the words and was just naming things he could literally see at the time.

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      3 months ago

      He very obviously did not remember the words and was just naming things he could literally see at the time.

      Exactly.