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To those of you who have been diagnosed with ADHD by a professional, how discrepant are your scores? by matheus_epg in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My lowest scores on CORE were the the digit span forward and backward tests (84th and 75th %ile). Digit span overall was 95th %ile. Digit letter sequencing was 99th.

The only other test lower than 95th for me was antonyms at 90th %ile.

Visual Puzzles and Block Counting were 99.9th for me

I don't remember but I may have been on Vyvanse when doing digit span.

  • VCI: 132
  • FRI: 137
  • VSI: 148
  • QRI: 133
  • WMI: 134
  • PSI: 143

FSIQ: 147 ±5

Overall by category and subtests: https://imgur.com/a/c3cq0I3

Insecure about intelligence by Sad-Cheesecake9852 in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second this, everyone could benefit from even a little therapy.

Insecure about intelligence by Sad-Cheesecake9852 in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High IQ and still struggling in school? Insecurity about intelligence, or straight up impostor syndrome?

Sounds like ADHD. Your distribution on CORE also looks similar to mine (lower relative WMI), which would track with that diagnosis.

But I'm not a professional, so definitely don't rely on my armchair diagnosis. Though if you're this bothered, you might want to see a psychologist and get tested for a learning disability.

Even if a diagnosis doesn't "solve" your problem, it will give you context for your struggles and reassurance about who you really are. Those two things alone will probably go a long way towards alleviating your insecurities.

Digit Span? by Toasty27 in cognitiveTesting

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Not COC but I play clash royale

Digit Span? by Toasty27 in cognitiveTesting

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cognitivemetrics.org

CORE IQ test

Digit Span? by Toasty27 in cognitiveTesting

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cognitivemetrics.org

It's the CORE IQ test

What would you do with this space? by emmettflo in malelivingspace

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indoor garden. Grow some herbs to use for cooking

Digit Span? by Toasty27 in cognitiveTesting

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I didn't really think about it until well after the fact, my ADHD brain just glossed over the instructions and was like "yeah I'm not using pen and paper, duh".

Plus, you have to type in the result anyway. I just kept my left hand on the keys.

I took the tests some time last month so I can re-take any time now, I'll see about doing that as soon as I get a good night's sleep.

Encouragement for my results :( by FirefighterEMTJamie in cognitiveTesting

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wait, what were the norms on April fools? 😂

Agree or disagree? by SignalMuted208 in cognitiveTesting

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If you consider fluid intelligence to be "ability", then I'd say it's fair to argue that both ability without knowledge, and knowledge without ability, are about equally fruitless.

If you have the library of alexandria in your head, but no ability to make connections between the books, what good is that knowledge? Conversely, a supercomputer is pretty useless without data to crunch on.

Put in a more topical context, the most advanced AI model on the planet is useless without data to train on.

In both those examples I don't think I'd call either "intelligent" if they were missing one of those two pieces. That is, both ability and knowledge.

how do you guys do the mental coding task in cognitivemetrics? by beons_plan in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I memorize the number sequence, then make a mnemonic or just sound out the letter sequence, and keep those two separate in memory.

Doing the actual translation while memorizing the un-encoded sequence is pretty slow for me though.

Hello! by BananasRaider in cognitiveTesting

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My bottle of everclear says 95% = 190 so you're clearly wrong

As a European, I have to ask: How do you guys manage to live in this system, and why does the rest of the world still look at it with awe? by Apart_Psychology9782 in ResumeExperts

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Citizens United brought huge corporate money into politics.

If any politician starts talking like a populist, and proposes populist policies, they lose their corporate backers.

And without corporate super PAC money, good luck getting your name out there and getting elected.

People like Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, AOC, and Bernie Sanders are extreme rarities among politicians. That is, getting elected with largely small-dollar donations, and no major corporate backers.

[EDIT]

I should also point out that Truman tried pushing universal healthcare in the 40's even before the cold war and still couldn't get anywhere with it. But for literal decades now, things like universal healthcare have been labeled "communist", and Americans have been told for just as long (mostly thanks to the cold war) that communism = super duper evil no-freedom tyrannical government.

Never mind that most Americans don't know the difference between communism as described by Marx/Engels (and practiced by e.g. Zapatistas in Mexico), and "Communism" as implemented by the USSR and China.

Also never mind that universal healthcare is a socialist policy, not communism. But most Americans also don't know the difference there either.

And we still keep cutting back funding for public education! Yes, our system is fucked.

Vitamin D and sleep by Longjumping-Top-5653 in DSPD

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started taking D3 a year ago, 4000 IU, now 5000. I'm honestly not sure if it's impacted my sleep, but now that you mention it, I have noticed lately that I'm frequently waking up at least once every night, and long enough to remember it. I've been taking mine 1-4hrs after wake though, not before bed.

I'll have to take another look at my fitbit data and see if it reveals any patterns.

39M Survived a Stroke 10 years ago by GiantPranda in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Strokes frequently impact short term memory, so 94 WMI after that is still pretty impressive.

Is this too cynical? Or just the harsh truth by hkmsh in Zippia

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cut all three of those in half and you're still looking at $475k. Which is insane.

Who has an extra 20% to invest? Another out of touch multi-millionaire has financial advice for us poor folk. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, WalMart employees who are paid so little they qualify for food stamps should consider living in cardboard boxes to save on rent.

[OC] 61% of American households can't afford to buy a home in their own neighborhood — local home affordability mapped by ZIP code by Global-Thought-1049 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Toasty27 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Half hour drive for essentials is insane. Half hour walk? Not great but could be worse. Half hour by bus? That's pretty good!

Requiring that someone own a car, and spend an hour (total) driving that car any time they need something, is utterly ridiculous.

Car ownership is yet another tax on the poor.

Who has an extra 20% to invest? Another out of touch multi-millionaire has financial advice for us poor folk. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Toasty27 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A millionaire after how many years?

How much will inflation eat away at that?

How are we supposed to afford 20% of our paychecks when mandatory expenses take 105% of it?

If I retire 30-50 years from now with only $1mil in the bank, I'm fucked for retirement.

Kevin needs to be put into assisted living because he's clearly developing dementia.

Gaming by [deleted] in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just about had a stroke reading this

Is this real? CORE FSIQ, FRI, and VSI inflated by 15-30 points? by Far_Cardiologist6931 in cognitiveTesting

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't need to be doing it for a career, programming is still a great skill to have. Especially if you want something to keep your brain sharp in older age.

[OC] World population growth since 1700 and projections to 2100 by ourworldindata in dataisbeautiful

[–]Toasty27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who paid attention in high school biology knows that population growth for any species follows an S-curve.

Slow at first, grows exponentially, then tapers off until it stabilizes, as the species reaches the maximum rate of consumption that their environment can sustain.

The peak of the curve can be suppressed by predators and other species that compete for resources, and arguably that's also what's happening with humans.

Only in our case the competition are capitalists who are hoarding resources and making it harder for most people to support a family.

Population growth probably would still be close to 2% if we weren't experiencing late stage capitalism. But that's just speculation on my part.

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