Donald Trump has been publicly bragging about “acing” a cognitive test, which he described the questions to be “very difficult.”
Over the weekend, Fox News released an interview conducted by Chris Wallace on Trump. During the interview, Wallace confronted Trump by claiming the test was “not the hardest test” and it consisted of identifying pictures.
Another person who shut down Trump’s claim that the test was hard was the creator of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment or MoCA test, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine.
Nasreddine, who developed the test in 1996, said during an interview with Market Watch that he didn’t intend for MoCA to be difficult. “This is not an IQ test or the level of how a person is extremely skilled or not. The test is supposed to help physicians detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, and it became very popular because it was a short test — and very sensitive for early impairment,” he said.
Nasreddine went on to tell Market Watch that if someone performs poorly on MoCA, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the person has early-onset Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. However, Nasreddine noted that MoCA “is supposed to be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment.”
“The purpose is to detect impairment,” Nasreddine explained. “It’s not meant to determine if someone has extremely high levels of abilities.”
You can read the full interview HERE.
You can also see the moment Wallace trolls Trump for bragging about the test below:
I'm a psychologist. I've administered this test (the MOCA) hundreds, if not thousands of times. Let me tell you, bragging about acing this test is the equivalent of bragging that you tied your own shoes this morning. https://t.co/ldzfcq9RGk
— chuuch (@ch000ch) July 19, 2020
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