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No more Wonderlic


Mr. Scot
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1 hour ago, PandaMan said:

I think TE was like #2 in the average Wonderlic score by position.  Maybe he’s truly playing big brain games this whole time… or he dragged them down to #2 from #1

I think MTV or somebody did a sketch a while back that portrayed Jessica Simpson as a super genius who just played dumb to fool people.

Also remember seeing an interview or something with Anna Nicole Smith that left me firmly convinced her dimwitted persona was all an act.

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1 hour ago, AU-panther said:

and did anyone take the time to really see if there was a correlation between the scores and sucess?

because if they didn't any opinion whether they were actually helpful or not is nothing more than a guess.

With as much money and resources that most NFL teams dedicate to the draft I'm sure some of the teams actually did, and the fact that the test stayed part of the combine for this long might indicate there was actually some sort of correlation that at least some of the teams appreciated, but that is just a guess.

 

There were three studies done that I'm aware of in '08, '09, and '11 and all three determined there was no correlation between wonderlic scores and NFL success.

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2 hours ago, AU-panther said:

unless you have access to every player any assumption about a correlation is nothing more than a guess

 

Perhaps, but being that the players' scores are all over the place, that may easily suggest that there is really no correlation and that ultimately the test means nothing.

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Let’s be real here: the wonderlic is an ethnocentric, culturally biased form of pseudoscience that creates an unfair metric of classism and using it to judge potential NFL players is probably racist. 
 

the prospects score has no correlation with success as an NFL player. It’s like one of the position coaches asking the player if he is gay during the interview process. Irrelevant and unethical. 

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