Wonderlic and QB's

[Sapper]

One of the harder questions might include:

Which one does not belong?

1)Venus 2)Jupiter 3)Saturn 4)Table

[antame]

Reall don't know, but I made 42 on the sample I did a while back.

I'm no Einstein, just have a high school diploma.

How did you do in the NFL, as a QB?

[ladypanther]

Reall don't know, but I made 42 on the sample I did a while back.

I'm no Einstein, just have a high school diploma.

Damn JOAT...wish you could throw the ball

[teeray]

One of the harder questions might include:

Which one does not belong?

1)Venus 2)Jupiter 3)Saturn 4)Table

Trick question. The answer is Uranus.

[Jackofalltrades]

I think it can be blamed on the sheer difference in ratio to white/black qb. There are alot more white qb's coming in so obviously it will be skwed.

Also failing the wonderlic doesn't equate to being dumb or unintlelligent.

What number would you call fail?

How did you do in the NFL, as a QB?

I'm really Joe Montana- surprise!

[Sapper]

Trick question. The answer is Uranus.

I actually meant to put 3 of the gas giants against each other but accidentally included Venus, which is terrestrial - Uranus was intended to be the odd one out (I bet a lot of burgeoning NFL players would choose that on name only).

More appropriately, and probably more on the medium scale in terms of difficulty would be:

1) 5 2) 6 3) 7 4) Aardvark

[panthers55]

Cultural bias has nothing inherent to do with race or IQ. It is western cultural bias to assume that things are written left to right or that a toggle switch on position is up. In China people read right to left and in Europe the toggle switch on position is down.

Most of these biases relating to testing are not racial but often socio-economic and experiencially based.

[antame]

I'm really Joe Montana- surprise!

My point is, an IQ test, (which is what the Wonderlic seems to me), doesn't say everything about a player, and scouts probably know this. It means something, maybe alot, but it's probably only one of many predictors of a player's potential value.

[Jackofalltrades]

My point is, an IQ test, (which is what the Wonderlic seems to me), doesn't say everything about a player, and scouts probably know this. It means something, maybe alot, but it's probably only one of many predictors of a player's potential value.

Not arguing that.

[teeray]

Cultural bias has nothing inherent to do with race or IQ. It is western cultural bias to assume that things are written left to right or that a toggle switch on position is up. In China people read right to left and in Europe the toggle switch on position is down.

Most of these biases relating to testing are not racial but often socio-economic and experiencially based.

I kinda wish I didn't open up this can of worms. But however you want to put it there is certainly a large representation of successful QBs that happen to be of a certain race at the bottom of that wonderlic scores list.

I am leaving it at that because I shouldn't have gone there.

[antame]

Not arguing that.

Why not? I want to argue for no good purpose some more.

[panthers55]

I kinda wish I didn't open up this can of worms. But however you want to put it there is certainly a large representation of successful QBs that happen to be of a certain race at the bottom of that wonderlic scores list.

I am leaving it at that because I shouldn't have gone there.

But the point is that the folks who score the best on those tests are guys with more experience using abstract reasoning and deductive logic. That tends to be a function of your esperience taking those tests and educational backgrouind. Doesn't matter if you are black or white.

[teeray]

But the point is that the folks who score the best on those tests are guys with more experience using abstract reasoning and deductive logic. That tends to be a function of your esperience taking those tests and educational backgrouind. Doesn't matter if you are black or white.

Fair enough. How do you account for that when you are evaluating their scores?? To me it make the scores, for certain people from different socio-economic environments, irrelevant or inconclusive at best.

[Jackofalltrades]

Why not? I want to argue for no good purpose some more.

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