Every year around the time of the National Football League, the Wonderlic aptitude test makes news. The league uses the test to assess the intelligence of its prospective batch of future stars.
The test is a set of 50 questions and test takers get only 12 minutes to complete it. The test is a lot like I.Q. and other similar measures of intelligence, but history shows the test is not necessarily a bellwhether of prowess on the football field. Still, the NFL gives the tests to aspiring pros and each team can determine for themselves how much stock to put into the scores.
A perfect score on the Wonderlic is 50; 21 is considered average.
The test measures intelligence on several levels, but not necessarily "book smarts." The Wonderlic questions tend to focus on common sense, reasoning, problem solving and other traits. But the test might not be a silver bullet in measuring intelligence in anyone - football players or regular folks. Some people are natural test takers who love the challenge of such an exam. Tests make other people naturally nervous, so they may not score as well on the Wonderlic. Furthermore, intelligent people might score well on certain types of questions and not so well on other types of measures. Plus, athletes who have taken similar aptitude tests before would likely have some sort of advantage in navigating the test questions.
Despite years of statistics that show the Wonderlic cannot accurately predict gridiron success, the league sticks with it. An analysis of Wonderlic scores of quarterbacks drafted in recent years shows no correlation between intelligence and playing ability. Some passers with incredibly high scores never made NFL rosters or sat the bench. Some players with abysmal scores have achived huge success in the pro game. Quarterbacks were used for this analysis because they generally are considered among the smartest players on the field.
According to the Web site www.macmirabile.com/Wonderlic.htm, which has tracked scores of incoming quarterbacks, Wonderlic success is not necessarily connected to football success.
The test is a set of 50 questions and test takers get only 12 minutes to complete it. The test is a lot like I.Q. and other similar measures of intelligence, but history shows the test is not necessarily a bellwhether of prowess on the football field. Still, the NFL gives the tests to aspiring pros and each team can determine for themselves how much stock to put into the scores.
A perfect score on the Wonderlic is 50; 21 is considered average.
The test measures intelligence on several levels, but not necessarily "book smarts." The Wonderlic questions tend to focus on common sense, reasoning, problem solving and other traits. But the test might not be a silver bullet in measuring intelligence in anyone - football players or regular folks. Some people are natural test takers who love the challenge of such an exam. Tests make other people naturally nervous, so they may not score as well on the Wonderlic. Furthermore, intelligent people might score well on certain types of questions and not so well on other types of measures. Plus, athletes who have taken similar aptitude tests before would likely have some sort of advantage in navigating the test questions.
Despite years of statistics that show the Wonderlic cannot accurately predict gridiron success, the league sticks with it. An analysis of Wonderlic scores of quarterbacks drafted in recent years shows no correlation between intelligence and playing ability. Some passers with incredibly high scores never made NFL rosters or sat the bench. Some players with abysmal scores have achived huge success in the pro game. Quarterbacks were used for this analysis because they generally are considered among the smartest players on the field.
According to the Web site www.macmirabile.com/Wonderlic.htm, which has tracked scores of incoming quarterbacks, Wonderlic success is not necessarily connected to football success.
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