The test.

[mia]

Could you pass it?



https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf

[Klaralven]

1. Regarding the "clock". What are "hands"?

[alphafemale]

3. People drawing a digital clock.

Many otherwise competent adults can not tell time on an analog clock or watch.

[mia]

7. If they can't, it counts against them.

Most of us grew up using an analog clock. Student still practice using one.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Right, no longer a valid subtest in a mental status cognitive test.

[mia]

10. Cursive is a foreign language to many.

Sign of the times.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Exactly, this is why psych tests need to be revised periodically.

No longer have face validity or no longer accurately measure what they are supposed to measure.

Edit to add:

Some of the old measures of childhood adaptive social functioning would be hilarious now such as tying a shoe, picture of mailbox, clock, writing your name, etc.

[USALiberal]

2. I'm in a Parkinson's drug study, took it many times. Nt

[cadoman]

12. do they administer the exact same test each time?

That is, does the test work for Parkinson's regardless of whether you've seen it many times before? Do you know at what score the results become a concern?

[USALiberal]

14. I have seen 3 different ones. Nt

[dweller]

4. Now, it's just a wordle hurdle ...

✌🏻

[mia]

5. I looked into it because

Republicans have made it news today. They are calling for Biden to take the test.

[bluedigger]

8. Not sure, but I know a whole bunch of F words.

[mia]

9. Alternate test.

https://www.lewdlegame.com/

[cadoman]

11. that delayed recall might catch me off guard

For the "ATTENTION" category, I thought they meant ascending/descending rather than forward/backward so I woulda screwed that up.

Between delayed recall and attention my score could have been 23. Yikes. On the bright side I annihilated the second half of LANGUAGE.

I'm a lot more confident in Biden passing this than TFG, even though they're both on the older side and I'd kinda expect anyone getting up there in years to miss a few of these.