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ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)
Wed Jul 4, 2012, 10:09 AM Jul 2012

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard:

Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake.
 
The average person over 45 years of age cannot do it!
 
  1.This is this cat.
     2. This is is cat.
        3. This is how cat.
           4. This is to cat.
            5. This is keep cat.
              6. This is an cat.
                 7. This is old cat.
                       8. This is fart cat.
                          9. This is busy cat.
                             10. This is for cat.
                                  11. This is forty cat.
                                        12. This is seconds cat.
 
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.

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The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard: (Original Post) ohiosmith Jul 2012 OP
Haha! mnhtnbb Jul 2012 #1
50+ and done to perfection. ret5hd Jul 2012 #2
So how did you do, ohio -- ya ole fart? n/t sarge43 Jul 2012 #3
Around 3 or 4 I was distracted by......... ohiosmith Jul 2012 #4
I forgot n/t sarge43 Jul 2012 #7
Forgot what?! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #11
Oh I don't know; I'm trying to find my glasses and figure out why I came into this room. n/t sarge43 Jul 2012 #12
Your glasses are on you head! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #13
No problem reading it, but I forgot I'd been duped by this before. nolabear Jul 2012 #5
Know what? Me too! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #16
Please keep the cats out of this. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #6
AND I loved it! turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #8
This "old fart" did it in a lot less than 40 seconds. drm604 Jul 2012 #9
Same here hobbit709 Jul 2012 #17
SHOW OFFS! turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #18
LOL!!! Little Star Jul 2012 #10
60 and done perfectly nt LiberalEsto Jul 2012 #14
LOL. I caught on when I hit line 8. hahahahaha! nt Honeycombe8 Jul 2012 #15

turtlerescue1

(1,013 posts)
18. SHOW OFFS!
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 10:55 AM
Jul 2012

Some us just have to count the third word in each sentence, because if you don't it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

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