MOCA is a cognitive screening test that evaluates for mild cognitive impairment rather than intelligence or aptitude. It includes tasks such as identifying animal drawings and later questions about orientation, including knowing where a person is and what day it is. Over time, Trump has repeatedly described MOCA as an IQ or aptitude test, which is inaccurate. Dr. Rob Davidson administered MOCA to Jim Acosta to demonstrate the exam’s real purpose. Acosta achieved a perfect score except for a single hiccup recalling five random words, forgetting “daisy.” Davidson scored the results and explained how education level can affect scoring points. Acosta described the test as easy and taxing only briefly.
"Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and score this. JIM ACOSTA: Wait, are we done? DR. ROB DAVIDSON: Sorry, yeah, yeah. You're done. JIM ACOSTA: Oh my goodness. That's it. Wow! And it was like, that was taxing! DR. ROB DAVIDSON: While I'm doing this, like how? JIM ACOSTA: Actually, no, it was not. It was very easy. And I don't want to make fun."
"DR. ROB DAVIDSON: It was, right? And like the one thing with a little hiccup. No, no. But it should be, right? This is testing mild cognitive impairment. At 26 or less. And if you got less than 12 years of education, we talked before, I know you said you went to college. Then you don't get a point, less than 12 years education, you get an extra point. Because we're saying, okay, a lot of education."
"JIM ACOSTA: What if I partied mostly through college? Does that count? DR. ROB DAVIDSON: I don't think you need the point. JIM ACOSTA: Give me a point there. DR. ROB DAVIDSON: So, and this is the one here we got. Yeah, so technically, as we're rounding up, I mean, they don't do decimals, so as it goes. So the only thing that was not like 100, 100% was the Daisy, right?"
"JIM ACOSTA: Was DR. ROB DAVIDSON: Daisy. Right. So you got everything else. So you got a perfect score. And that means you don't have any evidence of mild cognitive impairment."
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