Wonderlic and QB's

[antame]

If you can figure it out, patent & get rich.

I thought I did. OK, 3.2 seconds.

[Mr. Scot]

I am a bleeding heart liberal and honestly don't care about the race of anyone about anything.

Observation about your list...no one has won a SB.

I don't care what color, national origin, sexual orientation, or political party our next QB is. Just want him to take us to the NFL promise land.

I am a grumpy conservative and don't care about those things either :D

The Giants also have a personality test they give. I remember reading about Kevin Hardy's answer to one of the questions on it. The question was "True or False: I love tall women." Hardy put "true" but crossed out the 'T' in tall :lol:

The questions in the NFL's Wonderlic do tend to be pretty simple. Stuff like "What is the ninth month of the year" and "if rope sells for 10 cents a foot, how much can you get for sixty cents." It's timed (fifty questions in twelve minutes) and some guys don't finish the whole thing. Our own Chris Gamble only scored a 9, if I recall correctly.

[frash.exe]

i'd not be the least bit surprised if many players half-ass the wonderlic

[antame]

If you can figure it out, patent & get rich.

In all seriousnes, that is a billion dollar missing piece. You suppose we have a man on it?

[Catalyst]

Looking over that list, an average score seems to be better than a high one.

[nagai]

Looking over that list, an average score seems to be better than a high one.

lol Yeah. Honestly, I thought people knew this by now - the wonderlick doesn't mean jack. What is important is FOOTBALL IQ - something that should be measured with sessions on the chalkboard. The wonderlick really doesn't tell you what you need to know.

[Mr. Scot]

NFL teams are said to want a score of at least 20 or so, though I doubt that's a hard and fast rule.

[Sandy Claws]

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.

Most people that take the sample exams just respond to the questions. The actual exam is timed which adds an order of magnitude to the stress level.

[Catalyst]

The questions aren't really hard, they just require some time and the whole test is timed.

[nagai]

The questions aren't really hard, they just require some time and the whole test is timed.

Yep. All the points I didn't get were either due to a lack of time, or just misreading the question because I knew I had to be quick. I think most people can ace if they had time to breath.

[BBQ&Beer]

In all seriousnes, that is a billion dollar missing piece. You suppose we have a man on it?

Yep! At FSU they had a woman come in to prep the potential pros for it. Still some of them freeze.

[g5jamz]

I think the test is culturally biased toward people named Matt.

[Mr. Scot]

I think the test is culturally biased toward people named Matt.

Apparently people named Ryan and Greg do pretty well.

[MHS831]

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.

Different positions require different forms of thinking. The test measures ability to think declaratively and procedurally. ability to recognize a sequence of numbers has nothing to do with socioeconomic status. The socioeconomic status might have something to do with the fact that the test taker cannot process the sequence--community values, schools, etc. However, thinking is thinking, regardless of the prompts.

Testing bias comes from vocabulary and situations unfamiliar to the test takers in word problems, reading passages, and examples. People who claim bias on a test like this are making excuses.