LINK: Are You Smarter Than An NFL Draft Pick? Take the Wonderlic test to find out

[mittman]

SIAP

http://www.washingtontimes.com/quiz/...fl-draft-pick/

I just aced it. Only 15 questions? I am not sure this is really is the real thing.
I can see a reasonably intelligent person missing a few of these, but a college graduate doing poorly on it baffles my mind.

 

[Zaiva]

"Graduate"

 

[AlexanderFan]

College graduate? Please. Most of these guys aren't college graduates. Most major college football players are closer to being space aliens than college graduates. Let's be realistic.

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[gtowntide]

I got 14 missed 1. I scrolled down and took the "Gun" test and failed miserably. Oh well.

 

[mittman]

LOL, that wasn't the worst of the original post. I tried to edit it

 

[crimson fan man]

I missed one to. If any player fails this test I just cannot see them having the ability to play pro football.

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is a shortened version - the real test is 50 questions and is timed.

 

[bamagradinATL]

This is a shortened version - the real test is 50 questions and is timed.

I heard they have 12 minutes and without a calculator.

 

[bamagradinATL]

I missed one to. If any player fails this test I just cannot see them having the ability to play pro football.

Dan Marino scored a 15 and Terry Bradshaw scored a 16. Frank Gore scored a 6.

 

[B1GTide]

There was a web site a few years ago that posted a timed version of the test - 25 questions instead of 15, with 6 minutes to complete the 25 questions. All of the questions were similar to these, so it is probably pretty close.

Sad that some players score very poorly on these tests after 4+ years of college. Tells me a lot about their high schools and colleges. My high school teachers would have failed my many times over if my grasp of the basics was so poor that I might fail a test like this - I would never have made it to college.

 

[GreatDanish]

I've never taken the Wonderlic, but something about it has to be more difficult than this kind of "sample." A 40 is the 99th percentile of all test takers (not just NFL players). Chad Pennington was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and scored a 25. Myron Rolle, a Rhodes Scholar, scored a 33. These samples make it out like you are an idiot if you don't get a 50.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I've never taken the Wonderlic, but something about it has to be more difficult than this kind of "sample." A 40 is the 99th percentile of all test takers (not just NFL players). Chad Pennington was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and scored a 25. Myron Rolle, a Rhodes Scholar, scored a 33. These samples make it out like you are an idiot if you don't get a 50.

Yah, the sample I test I took a few years ago was 25 questions and frankly, it was a push to finish in the six minutes allotted. I recall it being a good bit more difficult than this one.

IOW, I don't think this is accurate - unless someone cherry picked the few simple questions from a few tests.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

Yah, the sample I test I took a few years ago was 25 questions and frankly, it was a push to finish in the six minutes allotted. I recall it being a good bit more difficult than this one.

IOW, I don't think this is accurate - unless someone cherry picked the few simple questions from a few tests.

My experience also. It was no cakewalk with the clock ticking. But I did pass and was in my sixties and in bad health.

 

[B1GTide]

Test taking is a skill in and of itself - especially timed tests like this. I suspect that the NFL does this as a short, timed test for their own reasons, and it probably has little to do with trying to guage intelligence.

 

[jthomas666]

SIAP

http://www.washingtontimes.com/quiz/...fl-draft-pick/

I just aced it. Only 15 questions? I am not sure this is really is the real thing.
I can see a reasonably intelligent person missing a few of these, but a college graduate doing poorly on it baffles my mind.

It's not the real thing, the the questions are more or less what you get. The Wonderlic as administered in the NFL gives you 12 minutes to answer 50 questions.

 

[mittman]

It's not the real thing, the the questions are more or less what you get. The Wonderlic as administered in the NFL gives you 12 minutes to answer 50 questions.

Yea, I had an inkling it was too easy. With a time limit and the stress of doing it to impress, questions you would normally have no problem figuring out become problems.

 

[Bamaro]

They should publish the scores.

 

[stlimprov]

All the versions of this I've seen have a common thread: the questions themselves aren't that difficult, but it requires some attention to not misread the question.

 

[JustNeedMe81]

I missed 3. Oh well.

 

[uaintn]

I've taken the Wonderlic before. A few of the questions were tricky, but these samples are the sort of thing I remember. You have to read very carefully to make sure you are answering the question that was asked. As others have stated, the time is the big thing. Takes some self discipline to read carefully when you need to average about 4 questions a minute. If you get behind, I could see where it would get really intense. One of the techniques is knowing when to "sacrifice" a question -- i.e. yes, I may be able to answer this math problem, but it'll take me about a minute to do the calculation, better to just take my best guess and work on other questions I can do faster or perhaps return to it.

That said, it is a little scary that high school graduates with at least several semesters of college work, if not an actual degree, are scoring in the single digits or low teens out of 50 questions. My bet would be that as a group, offensive linemen score higher than anyone.