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i went for this computer + sensor ADHD test the other day called the QB test, even though the sensor only monitors your head so it doesn't pick up the fact that i was constantly drumming my fingers during the 20 minute shape test
so the test was 20 minutes in silence , you sit in front of a laptop and watch 2 shapes of 2 colours flash up quickly on the screen, one by one, and click a clicker when the same shape + colour appears in succession.
it's supposed to measure how much you fidget/restless during the test, i figured, but...
apparently the result came out and said that i didn't get a single wrong click in the whole 20 minutes (i did miss seeing several though, which is normal), but also, by contrast to the control data for my age group, it showed that my variance in how long it took me to click the clicker when i saw the shape varied greatly. so the girl said this might be indicative of what i said, about how i zone out and think about other things constantly, which made my reaction times vary a lot.
so that was interesting. but that night i wondered about the 1 single click i had that was too quickly proceeding a shape change on the screen. apparently people who click "too quickly for it to be a reasonable reaction" are people who are more impulsive and exhibit hyper activity. but the shapes move so fast, why isn't it equally reasonable to think that people who click "too quickly" for one shape were actually in fact just clicking "too slowly" for the previous shape before the next one flashed up on the screen again?
imo they moved pretty fast and didn't stay on screen for more than 0.5s so i was having to think about what i was seeing a lot and would explain that 1 "impulsive" click as just being a "slow" click. but, i dont know, i would assume that is factored into the construction of the test.
it makes me wonder how many kids might have been flagged as ADHD though, simply because they thought about the shapes too much and therefore clicked too slowly, which could have been considered to be a "too fast" click for a proceeding shape......??
i got my results here, ill have another look and do some googling i guess
also omfg
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EDIT: okay so looking back at the results graph compared to the control group graph, i had 0 wrong answers vs ~3 , i had 26 missed answers vs ~4 , and my reaction time spread was higher than 99% of control group (from my age group o/c). so the girl said it can imply that i lose focus and think about other random things more than is normal. she said the head sensor and lack of "impulsive" clicks may suggest i dont have impulsive/hyper behaviour (but we all know that's not true :p ), but the other results may suggest i do have "attention deficit"
so, ultimately the interesting thing about it was that although i thought the test was gonna measure 1 thing and tried my best not to fuck it up (i even told the girl im paranoid a/f person), in my obliviousness it in fact recorded something completely different (and at a 99 percentile too, whatever that means).
not that i trust this tests as far as i can throw them since i already was able to point out a massive potential flaw with it
btw , since i worked with dementia and probably it's qute rare to get an actual video of someone in this situation (due to privacy laws), here is a video on reddit i just saw that offers a view into what it is like , for people who don't know https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5rbt0j/man_records_heartbreaking_video_of_the_first_time/
 
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That video was really sad to watch  Hope things work out for you in the end!
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I never heard of ADHD, so I just watched that video to find any problems/extraordinaries. If there is a problem then I assume the boy because his answers are very short. The answers of the girl are smarter, far-sightedness & she cares about other people (sister), thinking about logic reasons all the time. I am sure the (careless) boy only cares about himself so doesnt need think so much (time).
Then I read comments on youtube, all are about the girl is having ADHD. I read all assumptions/reasons why she has ADHD, I noticed them all already but I don't call that as/her problems.
Ofcourse you are looking for distraction (hoping for topic change) if you to talk about a topic you dont like. Doesnt matter if you talk about school or cars or your weaknesses, like the girl did. Everyone does that.
The boy likes to go to school, so yeah no problem to answer all questions pretty quick and very short. Everyone does that.
For me, both are showing normal/natural pattern. If you want to see the difference, then only when both like or dislike one topic.
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I took the exact same test 14 years ago.
I did poorly on purpose because I felt like the test was dumb.
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I keep trying to read through this blog but I keep getting distracted.
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On February 03 2017 21:55 Dingodile wrote:
I never heard of ADHD, so I just watched that video to find any problems/extraordinaries. If there is a problem then I assume the boy because his answers are very short. The answers of the girl are smarter, far-sightedness & she cares about other people (sister), thinking about logic reasons all the time. I am sure the (careless) boy only cares about himself so doesnt need think so much (time).
Then I read comments on youtube, all are about the girl is having ADHD. I read all assumptions/reasons why she has ADHD, I noticed them all already but I don't call that as/her problems.
Ofcourse you are looking for distraction (hoping for topic change) if you to talk about a topic you dont like. Doesnt matter if you talk about school or cars or your weaknesses, like the girl did. Everyone does that.
The boy likes to go to school, so yeah no problem to answer all questions pretty quick and very short. Everyone does that.
For me, both are showing normal/natural pattern. If you want to see the difference, then only when both like or dislike one topic.
i think the reason to explore it is because it helps you to identify 1) your behaviour and how it might differ from other people and 2) to what advantage can you put that understanding.
like for me, i might feel that things i do every do are engaging uses of my time, but really they aren't. i'm very good at doing a lot of nothing. and that is normal to me, and i don't know any different. like, i might take 4 hours to do something that takes another person 1 hour, because i get randomly distracted all the time without realising it.
and on top of that, a component of that is the consequences and side effects. i might know that i struggle to do things, so i become very anxious about performing. this might lead to me doing a more exceptional job than other people who don't worry as much, but also leads to me burning out and freaking out more than them, which can lead to things like relationship problems, and/or being especially unhappy and unsatisfied even when i do a good job, and lead to quitting jobs, alienating myself and so on.
anyway, at the end of the day the solution (for everyone) is to figure out what environment you most enjoy and get yourself into that environment.
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On February 04 2017 02:28 travis wrote:
I took the exact same test 14 years ago.
I did poorly on purpose because I felt like the test was dumb.
i told the girl i was paranoid coz i looked up the test already a bit and didn't want to come across as if i was trying to abuse it either by accident or purposely:/ (trying to explain something like this in so many words to a complete stranger isn't easy but i managed to come out with an analogy somehow)
the shocking thing was, at the end of it, it gave a result that i didn't fathom even existed, which was that i a) unintentionally missed answering a lot of clicks but also b) the time it took me to respond to each shape varied hugely. so the test measured things i didn't know it measured and operated successfully even though i was afraid of faking it by accident
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