face memory test

Online Cambridge Face Memory Test

I got 89% correct (64 out of 72), and it says the average is 80%. That surprises me. I still think I'm rather below average at recognizing people, though; maybe it is due to something other than facial detection skills. Obviously, real life isn't like a test where there are only 6 faces to remember. And remembering faces for a few minutes is different than remembering them over days, weeks, and years. And remembering names to go along with the faces is a whole 'nother issue. Part of my problem is probably that I don't feel comfortable staring at people (it doesn't seem polite or normal, even though I guess normal people do it more than me), so I don't get a good visualization of what someone looks like until I've interacted with them lots of times. That's why it helps me to try to pick out distinguishing features when I meet someone, and write them down as notes.

Famous Faces Test
I got 85% right on this one (23 out of 27 I was familiar with), and 85% is the average. I even remembered a lot of the names, maybe 3/4 of them.

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Approximate Numbers Sense test
You had a score of 81% correct on this test. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test scores 75% correct.
Your percentile score on this test was 88, meaning you scored higher than 88% of people who took this test.


Multiple Memory Test: Faces, Words, and Abstract Art (warning - this one has the face test again, but a slightly different version of it (unless the faces are random each time), and I did worse than average on this one.)

Abstract Art Memory
You correctly identified 40 out of 50 paintings. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test is able to identify 36 out of 50 paintings.

Cambridge Face Memory Test
You correctly identified 52 out of 72 faces. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test is able to identify 56 out of 72 faces.

Verbal Paired Associates Test
You correctly identified 22 out of 25 word pairs. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test is able to identify 13 out of 25 word pairs.



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I had to pay $50 for a 30-day supply of 10mg Lexapro tablets. The price without insurance would have been $105. The insurance-agreed (Aetna) pricing is $87.02.

Apparently Lexapro is a "Non-preferred brand copay" type medication (where I pay 20% of the cost of the drug with a $50 minimum).
If it were "Preferred brand copay", it would be 20% of the cost of the drug with a $30 minimum.
If it were "Preferred generic copay", it would be 20% of the cost of the drug with a $10 minimum.

Apparently Lexapro is non-preferred, because it is considered "step therapy", and I would have to try "one or more 'pre-requisite'** medications before the step-therapy medication will be covered".

So if the doctor had prescribed one of the others first, and then Lexapro, it would have been cheaper. If the doctor had prescribed one of the others first, it probably would have been a generic one which would have been even cheaper. And it might have even been one of the ones you could get at Walmart for $4.

I wonder if the drug companies and the doctors have some kind of deal, where the doctor gets a kick-back for prescribing drugs which don't have generic equivalents.


** The pre-requisites are listed as:
Any one of: budeprion sr QL , budeprion xl QL , bupropion hcl QL , bupropion hcl sr QL , citalopram hydrobromide QL , fluoxetine hcl QL , fluvoxamine maleate QL , mirtazapine QL , mirtazapine odt QL , paroxetine hcl QL , sertraline hcl QL , venlafaxine hcl QL