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Wangxian + lyrics from Always - 윤미래

As many have pointed out, Trump bragging about passing a cognition/retention test (which is NOT an IQ test, by the way, and which was apparently passed by Koko the Gorilla using sign language) is messed up in many ways.

But let me add this little wrinkle about the whole “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV” short-term memory retention question: That question isn’t a high-quality test of memory retention!

The point of that question is to see if the patient can recall “random” words, minutes after they were told to remember them. Since the patient KNOWS this is part of a test, they will (theoretically) work harder to tuck those words into their short-term memory, compared to if the examiner had just listed the words without context early in the interview and then held a pop quiz at the end of the interview: “Hey, do you remember those 5 random words I said at the beginning, without any context whatsoever?”

SO, the examiner has to overcome the interviewee’s “advantage” (they know they’ll be asked to recite these words later) by making the words harder to remember. How do you do that? By using a set of words that have no interconnections.

Trump’s list is really 2 sets of interconnected words: Person/Woman/Man [descriptors of humans] and Camera/TV [essentially an existing phrase {which our president is already highly aware of anyways, so... unfair advantage IMO!}, “TV Camera”].

In my med school/residency training for doing cognition/memory evaluations on patients, I was specifically taught to give words which do not have (easily-created) interconnections, such as “Blue, Horse, Table, Education, Sour” -- thus overcoming some of the patient’s advantage of knowing “this is a test”.

Juniors + grey/silver hues (sort of)

requested by @rose-nebulijia milestone event 4/?

Vish gave me free rein to do something different and this is what I came up with, thanks for the prompt and I hope you like it!

Alternate Lan Sizhui with Wen colours below the cut

Jiang Yanli & Pastels

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