Mental acuity

Answering a reporter’s question. Via Aaron Rupar. My transcription:

“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have, uh — AOC’s low IQ. You give her a, an IQ test. Have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took, it's a very hard, they're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine, the first couple of questions are easy, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to ten and twenty and twenty-five, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”

The current occupant is referencing is likely the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Seth Myers: “If you take a dementia test and think it’s an IQ test, then I’m sorry to say you failed both the IQ test and the dementia test.” The Dunning-Kruger effect is glaringly apparent when the current occupant implies that identifying common animals is evidence of intelligence.

Someday (like today) a plucky reporter should ask: “It seems, sir, that you when you say ‘low IQ,’ you’re always referring to people of color. Why is that?”

From The Grio : “Crockett is a former civil rights attorney who graduated from the University of Houston Law School and Rhodes College. [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University.”

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