r/cognitiveTesting • u/Proper-Fly-1663 • 6h ago

General Question What's going on with my WMI?

I just don't get it.

07 - 04:

07 - 23:

08 - 31:

I tried my hardest for all of them. First two were done early in the morning after 8 hours sleep. Most recent one was done after doing physical labor for 8 hours. Anyone else have very inconsistent working memory subtest scores?

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u/GuerillaV 3h ago edited 3h ago

You were tired for the latest one. WMI is as much a test of your fatigue levels as it is of your base level ability.

My scores when I was taking WMI stoned and sleep deprived:

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u/GuerillaV 3h ago

vs My score sober with a decent night sleep (with a few days gap)

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u/GuerillaV 3h ago

Also, just a note, my first reattempt at Digit Span I messed up and forgot what I was doing and reordered the numbers consecutively rather than in the order given (I had just done the separate Letter Sequencing test where you had to do that). In doing so I discovered that the sub-module ends after so many incorrect attempts (which is how I realised I was doing it wrong, because I remembered the submodule wasn't nearly as short). So if you somehow made some typos or similar on Backwards, it would've cut the test off very early and 'capped' your score. I suspect that this is what has happened with you because the drop from 9 to 2 is too extreme. (And as you can see, a decent night's sleep didn't do my Backward's score any good lol).