Could Donald Trump beat me?
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwEvery few months Trump boasts about how well he did on what he refers to as an IQ test but which is almost surely a version of this
https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/10044/montreal-cognitive-assessment-moca
I expect I could do OK on that (it would be cheating to test myself).
Directed by an article on NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468647/healthy-brain-aging-alzheimers-sleep-science
I went to the mindcrowd site
https://mindcrowd.org/
and took the test (played the game, as they said). They require more info than one might should (southernism) give them, but I was curious.
I found the memory part of the test hard, although it got better with repetition. Still, I scored somewhat higher than average for people in my category (race age "biological sex" highest education level) on the memory portion and was a good bit better at tapping a key (any alphabetic letter will do) at the sight of a red (they say pink) ball on the screen. Is that because I ring synthetic bells using a keyboard? Because I can touch type pretty well?
Of course I am somewhat younger than DJT and live a healthier lifestyle, so we wouldn't be in the same category anyway.
https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/10044/montreal-cognitive-assessment-moca
I expect I could do OK on that (it would be cheating to test myself).
Directed by an article on NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468647/healthy-brain-aging-alzheimers-sleep-science
I went to the mindcrowd site
https://mindcrowd.org/
and took the test (played the game, as they said). They require more info than one might should (southernism) give them, but I was curious.
I found the memory part of the test hard, although it got better with repetition. Still, I scored somewhat higher than average for people in my category (race age "biological sex" highest education level) on the memory portion and was a good bit better at tapping a key (any alphabetic letter will do) at the sight of a red (they say pink) ball on the screen. Is that because I ring synthetic bells using a keyboard? Because I can touch type pretty well?
Of course I am somewhat younger than DJT and live a healthier lifestyle, so we wouldn't be in the same category anyway.
