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How Wonderlic Correlates With Career Passer Rating

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  • Some people are a genius in one area and a moron in another. Taking a written test is different than making judgements on the field. On the field, the action is quick and there are many different moving parts. You are actively observing, thinking, and processing information. Completely different than being locked in some room taking a test.

    @pumpkin-eater said:

    On the field, the action is quick and there are many different moving parts. You are actively observing, thinking, and processing information. Completely different than being locked in some room taking a test.

    How is what you described any different from a high-pressure, timed test? Succeeding at both requires the same exact mental skill set.

  • not buying it. You are in two totally different environments. Think about visual learners. If you ask them to spell something they might need to write it down first. They are better at seeing and acting than they are at processing information based on memories.

  • Shep your crusade to denigrate DA and support your position that BQ is going to be that much better is tiring. Any timed test that measures intelligence will always have people who score lower than what they could if it was not timed.

    The wonderlic like other IQ tests will support a specific sample and hurt others. It does not mean they sample that score lower are stupid it just means this sort of medium does not play to there strengths.

    You keep talking about the "it" factor..... that is a quotient that can not be tested for yet you argue about the wonderlic as a solid platform that somehow equates to NFL success.

    Does DA seem slower to me? yes but I have met many people who are quite intelligent that use a different methodology on how they come to conclusions that have similar personas like DA.

    Einstein failed mathematics..... I am sure his failing grade was not a measure of his future success. Trying to fit future potential by trying to test intelligence and specific aptitudes is a slippery slope.

    Bill Gates and many like him never graduated college yet they are seen as "brilliant" because of their obvious successful careers.

    BQ's 40 something qb rating in his last game was just a number that was obviously affected by other variables and not a good way to measure his future success. Yet his starting debut he was rated over 100.... different days different results because of other variables... neither can be used one way or the other to predict his future.

    SAT/ACT scores are definately another controversial testing methodology that people can vastly change their results from one attempt or another.

    Shep there is NO bottom line to your findings just you trying to shape this argument to fit your position. testing scores mean very little for predicting future success, it just means some people test well on certain days and others dont.

    Trying to use these IQ aptitude scores as a crystal ball for future NFL success is silly.

    @osusev said:

    Any timed test that measures intelligence will always have people who score lower than what they could if it was not timed.

    The wonderlic like other IQ tests will support a specific sample and hurt others.

    NEWS FLASH: The NFL has a timed test - it's called a play clock.

  • Read the research study.

  • [/size]ROFLMAO!
  • Shep your crusade to denigrate DA and support your position that BQ is going to be that much better is tiring. Any timed test that measures intelligence will always have people who score lower than what they could if it was not timed.

    The wonderlic like other IQ tests will support a specific sample and hurt others. It does not mean they sample that score lower are stupid it just means this sort of medium does not play to there strengths.

    You keep talking about the "it" factor..... that is a quotient that can not be tested for yet you argue about the wonderlic as a solid platform that somehow equates to NFL success.

    Does DA seem slower to me? yes but I have met many people who are quite intelligent that use a different methodology on how they come to conclusions that have similar personas like DA.

    Einstein failed mathematics..... I am sure his failing grade was not a measure of his future success. Trying to fit future potential by trying to test intelligence and specific aptitudes is a slippery slope.

    Bill Gates and many like him never graduated college yet they are seen as "brilliant" because of their obvious successful careers.

    BQ's 40 something qb rating in his last game was just a number that was obviously affected by other variables and not a good way to measure his future success. Yet his starting debut he was rated over 100.... different days different results because of other variables... neither can be used one way or the other to predict his future.

    SAT/ACT scores are definately another controversial testing methodology that people can vastly change their results from one attempt or another.

    Shep there is NO bottom line to your findings just you trying to shape this argument to fit your position. testing scores mean very little for predicting future success, it just means some people test well on certain days and others dont.

    Trying to use these IQ aptitude scores as a crystal ball for future NFL success is silly.

    @osusev said:

    Any timed test that measures intelligence will always have people who score lower than what they could if it was not timed.

    Very true, indeed.

    Those people are called everybody.

  • Good find. I'm glad those researchers supported my hypothesis.

    But I don't think anyone was really thinking intelligence correlated negatively with performance, was there??

    mz. said:

    Good find. I'm glad those researchers supported my hypothesis.

    But I don't think anyone was really thinking intelligence correlated negatively with performance, was there??

    No, inspite of some very creative efforts stating otherwise. THAT is the point. I'm hoping nobody wants to see us starting a DUMB QB besides the Steelheads and Loverboy.

    Thanks for your research mz the pussy.

    - Tom F.

  • Thats fine I notice no one decided to refute my examples of other testing methodologies like the SAT/ACT in measuring future aptitude and success.... Harvard and tons of other university presidents now are all critical of these tests and dont believe they are accurate predictors of future academic success.

    Future success that can be accurately identified by a specific test is like the search for the holy grail. My problem with your position shep is not about which qb you are backing rather fundamentally pointing to some IQ test as some sort of future talent identifier is dubious. IE Jeff Maas:43/Drew Henson 42/bruce Eugene 41/Darrel Hackney 40

    Donovan Mcnabb 14

    Daunte Culpepper 18

    Terry Bradshaw 15

    Dan Marino 15

    Jim Kelly 15

    Randal Cunningham 15

    Vinny Testerverde 17

    Steve Mcnair 15

    Those examples are obviously on both extreme ends of the spectrum but it shows you enough samples both ways that the conclusion that this is somehow an accurate prediction model is dubious.

    Those scores must have precluded some of those Hall of famers and future ones and the other scores in the 40's for players mostly never heard of must be some sort of mistake.

    Iq Aptitude tests that somehow define future success does not exist.... just like the movement away From SAT/ACT as quality predictors of future success (those tests at least are all academic without the physical/adrenaline response/fight or flight variable)

    IF BQ does not win the Job outright after 3 camps and preseason/2 coaching staffs than he is not what you think he is and all fans hope he might be. I still think he is the starter this year but if DA does win the job than it is pretty clear that BQ does not have what it takes or DA is better.

  • For shits and giggles looked up Dildofer's......he got a 22.

  • How about this shep,

    I agree that the game is changing and a higher I.Q. aptitude because of the game preparation and shemes is definately more beneficial and statistically for a GM to invest money you want to feel the player has the mental chops.

    I just dont agree that some sort of timed Iq test gives a good cross section for NFL analysis because some guys dont test well, some guys have a different sort of intelligence that when under physical pressure they have more of a pure "football" intelligence.

    I do think BQ is (obvious a ND grad) is probably going to test better andl probably in general much more analytic and quick than DA. Some guys like DA however by his genetic gifts can override or equate to more or an analytic skill on the playing field.

    I wish these two were morphed into one really.

    I think like the SAT/ACT debate the wonderlic because its lack of overall ability to accuratly predict future success it is only a small and fairly unimportant factor... unless you score a sub 10....

  • Does anyone know what Rottenburger scored on his wonderdick test?

  • Does anyone know what Rottenburger scored on his wonderdick test?

    BillyJack said:

    Does anyone know what Rottenburger scored on his wonderdick test?

    Do people around here refuse to READ????