Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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alfaniner said:
A lot of times, these kinds of tests aren't testing what you might think they are.
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Like Rorschach tests. I have an old book, Big Secrets by William Poundstone, that tells you in which blotches you're SUPPOSED to say you see the hoo-hahs.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Next time? Someone's been giving you the test? :p
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Yes, see below. There's also a questionnaire asking stuff like whether you've fallen. https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Ed...MLNProducts/Downloads/AWV_Chart_ICN905706.pdf

Tero said:
Any of you on Medicare? The free annual "physical" is a so called wellness visit with a lower medical staff running through home safety check lists etc. she can give you the full Montreal cognitive test or parts. The doctor then can concentrate on the physical aspects of the exam on the second visit. Mine, the nurse, asked me what day it was. I knew it was past the 17th since that was the last check I wrote. :rolleyes:
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jnelso99 said:
Like Rorschach tests. I have an old book, Big Secrets by William Poundstone, that tells you in which blotches you're SUPPOSED to say you see the hoo-hahs.
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The would-be Mercury astronauts were asked to describe what they saw on a blank piece of paper. Some said they saw nothing; others saw a snowfield. One guy said, "But it's upside down!"

He didn't get selected as one of the original seven.

For some reason Trump's dragging out of this cognitive test issue strikes me as one particular area that must have foreign heads of state laughing, whether in glee or out of a desperate urge not to cry. Most of these are serious people - not good people, necessarily, but solidly educated and cognizant that these tests are not the kind you brag about acing. I think of Xi rising to lead the CCP; Putin the KGB man and master manipulator, Merkel with her doctorate in chemistry - and then I think of Trump who probably needed to cheat and bribe just to manage a B.A. (or B.S.) degree in general business, or whatever the easiest business major there is, and just cringe.
 
Minoosh said:
The would-be Mercury astronauts were asked to describe what they saw on a blank piece of paper. Some said they saw nothing; others saw a snowfield. One guy said, "But it's upside down!"

He didn't get selected as one of the original seven.

For some reason Trump's dragging out of this cognitive test issue strikes me as one particular area that must have foreign heads of state laughing, whether in glee or out of a desperate urge not to cry. Most of these are serious people - not good people, necessarily, but solidly educated and cognizant that these tests are not the kind you brag about acing. I think of Xi rising to lead the CCP; Putin the KGB man and master manipulator, Merkel with her doctorate in chemistry - and then I think of Trump who probably needed to cheat and bribe just to manage a B.A. (or B.S.) degree in general business, or whatever the easiest business major there is, and just cringe.
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Putin's Rorshach test: "I see...an overwhelming popular mandate for me to continue in my leadership position. Isn't that what you see, too, doctor?"
 
JoeMorgue said:
But there's a more opaque mentality at work here, more of a Joker-esque need to just watch the world burn, all to get back at people who dared to tell you not to touch the hot stove and then had the utter audacity to actually be right that touching the hot stove was a bad idea. "I'd rather think for myself then be factually correct" has become self-feeding and self-destructive.
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In a way that's the logical end-result of focusing so much on the individual at the expense of the community, and of telling every single person that they are super-special and important.

They're not.
 
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I especially enjoy when Fox News polling (A- rated by 538) comes out with numbers like...

PA: Biden +11
MI: Biden +9

This poll (Quinnipiac) is eye-catching.

FA: Biden +13

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Minoosh said:
The would-be Mercury astronauts were asked to describe what they saw on a blank piece of paper. Some said they saw nothing; others saw a snowfield. One guy said, "But it's upside down!"



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That astronaut was Pete Conrad, who made it into the gemini programme and became the third man to walk on the Moon.

/derail
 
JoeMorgue said:
Ironically the rise the Trump is the first thing I've seen that really makes me believe that large chunks of the Right can no longer really sustain the lie that they are right about most things or that history is moving in their direction.
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I wish I were confident that history isn't moving in their direction. Sure has taken a turn that way recently.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Putin's Rorshach test: "I see...an overwhelming popular mandate for me to continue in my leadership position. Isn't that what you see, too, doctor?"
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Wow. I think you nailed it.

TheSupermeerkat said:
That astronaut was Pete Conrad, who made it into the gemini programme and became the third man to walk on the Moon.

/derail
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Just finishing up "The Right Stuff" here.
 
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