I found Dunkin' Donuts, thanks.

I don't want to fudge your test results by telling you things that might make you inappropriately prepared for the tests.

What I can tell you is that each test has been painstakingly engineered to quickly identify exactly when a specific part of your brain starts becoming fatigued.

One result is that, by then end of the day, every part of your brain has been quickly and systematically pushed to a point of fatigue, and beyond.

That is: if you take these tests the way I took them (as always, imagining someone is pointing a gun at my head), you probably won't feel like doing much of anything for the rest of the day. It felt good, though, to know that I had really found my limit in so many different ways. I get my results on 15 August in a 1-hour session at 9:00 AM.

A tip I would add for people going to take the test in Boston is not to do what I did afterward. I decided I wanted to take a shortcut back to the train station, and assumed I would be able to do this without a compass or a map. Probably, I shouldn't have asked for any help from the wicked retahded merchants around the eastern part of Beacon Hill. Since I have now seen most of Boston up close and on foot, I expect I'll have no problem finding my way around when I go back for results. Even so, I will be bringing a compass and a map NOT provided to me by the parks service or other parties with a possible interest in keeping me away from the train station. Also, I now know where the 'MBTA Access -->' signs really lead, and where the actual entrances to the actual MBTA system are actually hidden.
Summary: in a mental state consisting of meticulous and systematic fatigue of all parts of the mind, Boston is just another maze for the weary lab rat you'll feel like you're channeling. Locate the cheese BEFORE you are subject to the experimental stimuli. Trust me on this.

Boston issues aside, the Johnson O'Connor staff were courteous, but not inappropriately cheerful (as I got the feeling they thought I was).

When you go, be sure your employer hasn't bounced your last 2 paychecks, and that you can pay the foundation people up-front.
Please be sure to mention, specifically, that I told you to pay them in cash or with a money order if you can. Tell them 'Josh, the guy who takes way too long on the untimed tests and gives up too easily on the paper-folding thing told me to give you cash.'

If you really want to know what's on the tests, I suppose I can give you some idea, if you promise not to try to practice or otherwse mentally prepare. The tests are better-designed than I can possibly make them sound. They include a test of how quickly you would be able to acquire a Martian vocabulary, recognizing possible patterns in short strings of numbers, distinguishing which of 2 close pitches is higher or lower, color differentiation, simple 3-D puzzles (timed), putting tiny pegs into tiny holes (timed), recognizing pairs of 'rhythms'(what I would prefer to call 'sequences of inter-onset duration', since the metric implications were a distraction in my case) as being the same of different, abstract connect-the-dots from memory (this one really kicked my lame ass), recognizing changes in strings of 'musical' pitches (I think they were deliberately out of tune from 'normal' pitch structures, which is a GREAT idea), word association and a substantial amount of other stuff.

I think most people who find themselves on a tribe like this one would probably really enjoy the tests (I did!), provided that the tests are all basically intended to see how badly you fail. The 'right answers' on the tests are the answers that reflect how easy or how hard related tasks are for you in possible work situations, and I think the tests were all pretty well thought-out in terms of sidestepping any training or experience that could strongly bias the score away from innate ability and toward acquired skills.

The proof is in the pudding, though, eh?

More on this matter in late August.