Taylor scored a 10 in Wonder test?

[maddogkf]

At my old job, I had to take the wonderlic for a new job position. It's a timed test that usually you can't finish.

It's similar to the standardized tests that are out ther.

I'll see if I can get a copy of it somewhere...

 

[mdamien13]

My only concern is that being a safety in the NFL is very much a mental position. Adrian Wilson is one of the best athletes on the field but he has rocks between the ears and always seems to find himself out of position. Is this gonna be a problem with Taylor?

Anyone know Wilson's wonderlic score?

 

[Tangodnzr]

Shaun->->->Ball->->->GO...GET!!!!

Yes!!!!!!!!

 

[maddogkf]

Check out this....


http://www.westoninfosource.com/

About the Wonderlic

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The Wonderlic is a 12 minute mental obstacle course. The beginning of the test is somewhat simple but it quickly gets more difficult. It's like a mini-battery of power and speed aptitude tests all mixed together. It is designed to test your mental agility because there are traps planted all over the place. It will most likely be the most bewildering 12 minute test you've ever experienced.

The Wonderlic has many supporters. Organizations like to uses it because it is quick way to evaluate large pool of applicants. It provides them with a common yardstick to compare individuals in large pools of applicants. However, the prevailing philosophy at those organizations who use the Wonderlic is, if you can't make the minimum score, they have a reason to cut you from the the list.

The Wonderlic has been the target of criticism claiming that the test is biased against minorities and individuals with learning disabilities. Over the years, however, the Wonderlic company has been effective in defending that the use of its personnel test for pre-employment screening is within the bounds of the law.

Back in the 1983 NFL Draft, five quarterbacks were picked before Dan Marino. However in 1979, he was the USFL's (United States Football League, Los Angeles Express) number one overall draft pick. The rumor is that the Dolphins almost passed over Marino too because he only scored a 16 on the Wonderlic. With his stellar performance in the USFL, he should have been the number one draft pick in the NFL. In his case, his Wonderlic score severely damaged but fortunately didn't ruin his NFL career.

I think this guy is on crack....

 

[jolt]

Allow me to quote my favorite question from the 1997 Wonderlic on which Simeon Rice got a 4:

"You have 50 cents and rope costs 10 cents per foot, how many feet of rope can you buy?"

Make all the excuses you want, anyone who gets less than 15 or 20 is borderline ********. The company that makes the test describes a score of less than 10 as "barely literate".

 

[jolt]

Originally posted by vikesfan
Dude you are missing the point.

Smart as defined by the Wunderlic is bogus. There are different kinds of smarts and success. The Wunderlic is neither indicative of football smarts, business smarts, street smarts or anything else.

Some of the dumbest people I know I met in University. Some of the smartest people I know never went to University (one guy never finished high school).

Anyone who judges people off the Wunderlic is barking up the wrong tree.

How about Terry Bradshaw or Joe Montana these guys aren't Rhodes Scholars - Pat Haden was.

There is a difference between saying "Well he only got a 20, he's not a genius" and a guy scoring a f*cking 8. "Not a rhodes scholar" and "dumber than a bag of rocks" are two different things entirely.

 

[jf-08]

Originally posted by maddogkf
Check out this....


http://www.westoninfosource.com/

About the Wonderlic

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Wonderlic is a 12 minute mental obstacle course. The beginning of the test is somewhat simple but it quickly gets more difficult. It's like a mini-battery of power and speed aptitude tests all mixed together. It is designed to test your mental agility because there are traps planted all over the place. It will most likely be the most bewildering 12 minute test you've ever experienced.

The Wonderlic has many supporters. Organizations like to uses it because it is quick way to evaluate large pool of applicants. It provides them with a common yardstick to compare individuals in large pools of applicants. However, the prevailing philosophy at those organizations who use the Wonderlic is, if you can't make the minimum score, they have a reason to cut you from the the list.

The Wonderlic has been the target of criticism claiming that the test is biased against minorities and individuals with learning disabilities. Over the years, however, the Wonderlic company has been effective in defending that the use of its personnel test for pre-employment screening is within the bounds of the law.

Back in the 1983 NFL Draft, five quarterbacks were picked before Dan Marino. However in 1979, he was the USFL's (United States Football League, Los Angeles Express) number one overall draft pick. The rumor is that the Dolphins almost passed over Marino too because he only scored a 16 on the Wonderlic. With his stellar performance in the USFL, he should have been the number one draft pick in the NFL. In his case, his Wonderlic score severely damaged but fortunately didn't ruin his NFL career.

I think this guy is on crack....

Marino never played in the USFL. Steve Young was the 1st pick by the LAEx. This guy needs to take his own test. He'd probably score about a 9.

 

[kerouac9]

Originally posted by jolt
There is a difference between saying "Well he only got a 20, he's not a genius" and a guy scoring a f*cking 8. "Not a rhodes scholar" and "dumber than a bag of rocks" are two different things entirely.

I dunno. I guess there's a difference. You're rated as a Top 5 pick and you're going to get somewhere in the ballpark of $5 mil by August. Are you really going to try that hard on some dumb test? You've avoided tests for the past three to five years in college!

I got a 1490 on my SAT. If I hadn't tried, I would have gotten a 200 (or whatever). There's no incentive for a lot of these picks to try.

 

[Ryanwb]

Originally posted by kerouac9
I got a 1490 on my SAT. If I hadn't tried, I would have gotten a 200 (or whatever). There's no incentive for a lot of these picks to try.

:roll: lets not brag......now get rid of the stupid signature

 

[jolt]

Originally posted by kerouac9
I dunno. I guess there's a difference. You're rated as a Top 5 pick and you're going to get somewhere in the ballpark of $5 mil by August. Are you really going to try that hard on some dumb test? You've avoided tests for the past three to five years in college!

I got a 1490 on my SAT. If I hadn't tried, I would have gotten a 200 (or whatever). There's no incentive for a lot of these picks to try.

I would try to prove to the NFL that I'm not arrogant and disrespectful and think I'm too good for them and I can thumb my nose at them and still get paid.

These are not questions that make you a genius if you get them right, it's basic stuff that a 5th grader could reasonably be expected to answer.

 

[jf-08]

My bad - Marino was drafted by the LA Exp, but never played. But the Year was 1983, not 1979 like Norman Einstein stated.

http://www.thisistheusfl.com/1983 cointoss.htm

 

[kerouac9]

Originally posted by Ryanwb
:roll: lets not brag......now get rid of the stupid signature

Sorry about that. I wasn't meant to brag. I was just saying that people who don't need to try on something have no incentive to do so.

Dude, just ignore the sig if you hate it so much. Mind your own business.

 

[jolt]

Not trying on the wonderlic would be just like running a really slow 40 and saying "well they already know i'm fast, i wasn't trying".

 

[kerouac9]

Originally posted by jolt
Not trying on the wonderlic would be just like running a really slow 40 and saying "well they already know i'm fast, i wasn't trying".

Touche. But even prospects aren't dumb: which bad score is going to more significantly drop your stock?

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by kerouac9
Dude, just ignore the sig if you hate it so much. Mind your own business.

The sig is pretty bad. It really jumps off the screen, which can be a real detriment to those of us in Cubicle Land...

 

[Savage58]

Haven't you guys ever played with a drop dead stupid a$$ player before. I played with some of the "not so smartest" players in college football in the past, I mean they couldn't spell, or speak english on an 8th grade level, but when you get them in that film room, they truly shine, and suprise the hell out of you.

That movie "Program" where the awesome linebacker can't read a lick, then goes into the football meeting room and goes Einstein Football 101 for you, that is so realistic its scary, I've seen it. The person I'm referencing too, was a great person too, he wasn't a felon or anything.

That wonderlic may show more about how the person will be OFF the field than anything. Give it a .1% of what player he'll become IMO. We all heard/saw the questions on the wonderlic test and honestly, they have no value in my book.

1) What kind of animal do you see yourself as, Cat or Dog?

Kind of reminds me of Jim Harricks college basket ball exam, how many points do you get for a 3point shot? WTF? Now that's funny.

 

[jolt]

The bad 40 would definitely hurt you more, but with the amount of money invested in high draft picks, there are more and more teams wary of which guys are knuckleheads because they know there are higher odds that they will do dumb stuff off the field and will be hard to coach.

 

[jolt]

Originally posted by Savage58
Haven't you guys ever played with a drop dead stupid a$$ player before. I played with some of the "not so smartest" players in college football in the past, I mean they couldn't spell, or speak english on an 8th grade level, but when you get them in that film room, they truly shine, and suprise the hell out of you.

That movie "Program" where the awesome linebacker can't read a lick, then goes into the football meeting room and goes Einstein Football 101 for you, that is so realistic its scary, I've seen it. The person I'm referencing too, was a great person too, he wasn't a felon or anything.

That wonderlic may show more about how the person will be OFF the field than anything. Give it a .1% of what player he'll become IMO. We all heard/saw the questions on the wonderlic test and honestly, they have no value in my book.

1) What kind of animal do you see yourself as, Cat or Dog?

Kind of reminds me of Jim Harricks college basket ball exam, how many points do you get for a 3point shot? WTF? Now that's funny.

But it's not like they're asking these guys to do calculus. They're asking questions a 2nd grader could answer, it's like "what is 2 x 5?"

 

[SECTION 11]

Originally posted by Pariah
The sig is pretty bad. It really jumps off the screen, which can be a real detriment to those of us in Cubicle Land...

You can turn that stuff off in your user options.

 

[Ryanwb]

Originally posted by SECTION 11
You can turn that stuff off in your user options.

Why should we change, he's the one who sucks

 

[Ryanwb]

Originally posted by kerouac9
Dude, just ignore the sig if you hate it so much. Mind your own business.

This is a sports forum A-hole. Take your ignorent comments to some other political medium

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by SECTION 11
You can turn that stuff off in your user options.

I'll try that; it's a shame though, I like seeing people's sigs.

 

[FrontRow]

I agree. Get rid of the Sig. It is horrible.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by FrontRow
I agree. Get rid of the Sig. It is horrible.

BTW, my opinion of the sig has nothing to do with it's content--just it's size and color.

 

[Lex]

It should be against the law to give stupid people millions of dollars.

Of course, then we'd have to outlaw the lottery, and we make WAY too much money off stupid people buying lottery tickets.