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pat_k

(13,785 posts)
33. Yep. And I think it is always serial subtraction of 7 starting at 100.
Tue May 5, 2026, 06:15 PM
4 hrs ago

And you only need to do the first five (93 86 79 72 65).

Also, at the Villages, he said there were 30 questions. There aren't. Depending on what you count as a discrete question, there are 10-12 that address 8 aspects of cognition. You can score up to 30 (Example)

Not to mention that while the animals in the Naming section vary a little by version, there are always just three animals pictured. I suppose a person with normal memory could get muddled about which animals they saw in the most recent testing session, but seems to me you'd remember whether you saw three or four after seeing three every single time you're given the damn test. But he keeps reporting four animals -- it's almost like his subconscious adds one because that would somehow show the task was "harder."





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Yep. And I think it is always serial subtraction of 7 starting at 100. pat_k 4 hrs ago #33
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