Wonderlic Scores

[Smooth]

I know it's just the Wonderlic but funny to look at regardless:

Stafford-38
Sanchez-28
Freeman-27

Eben Britton-31
Monroe-24
Jason Smith-23
Andre Smith-17
Oher-19

Maclin-25
Crabtree-15
Harvin-12
Nicks-11

Clay Matthews-27
Cushing-23
Malaluga-15

Louis Delmas-12
Kevin Barnes-41

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-22-pompei-scout-mar22,0,7151782.story

Basically, half these guys are illiterate.. :chuckles:

 

[cdt]

Me Rey Maualuga me hit hard...

I Hakeem Nicks catch ball..

 

[WestFo3]

LMAO at Nicks and Rey.. Got to look up the OSU's scores.

 

[WestFo3]

Who should be No. 2?
Who should be the first backup to Bears starting quarterback Kyle Orton?

Caleb Hanie

Brett Basanez

Go get Jay Cutler and make him the backup

Go get Jay Cutler and make Orton the backup



LMAO at that poll.

 

[Maximus]

Basically, half these guys are illiterate..

Here's some sample questions. My 3rd grader just got 10 of the 15 correct in 5 minutes. Unfortunately his 40 yard dash sucks and he can't bench bench 225 pounds.



http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020228test.html
See how you score on some examples from a Wonderlic IQ test.

Set your clock for five minutes, don't peek at the answers, and ... oh, yeah, run the 40 and give us some bench-presses first, would ya?

The Wonderlic Personnel Test ™
WPT ™ Sample Questions

1. Look at the row of numbers below. What number should come next?
8 4 2 1 ½ ¼ ?


2. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one:
1. true, 2. false, 3. not certain?
The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear hats. The boy wears a hat.

3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost?

4. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates?
Nieman, K.M. Neiman, K.M.
Thomas, G.K. Thomas, C.K.
Hoff, J.P. Hoff, J.P.
Pino, L.R. Pina, L.R.
Warner, T.S. Wanner, T.S.


5. RESENT RESERVE • Do these words
1. have similar meanings, 2. have contradictory meanings, 3. mean neither the same nor opposite?

6. One of the numbered figures in the following drawing is most different from the others. What is the number in that figure?

7. A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in three seconds?

8. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents?

9. The ninth month of the year is
1. October, 2. January, 3. June, 4. September, 5 May.


10. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount?
7 .8 31 .33 2


11. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?

12. The hours of daylight and darkness in SEPTEMBER are nearest equal to the hours of daylight and darkness in:
1. June, 2. March, 3. May, 4. November.


13. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?

14. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one:
1. true, 2. false, 3. not certain?
Tom greeted Beth. Beth greeted Dawn. Tom did not greet Dawn.

15. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?

These are sample test questions and are intended for demonstration purposes only. The Wonderlic Personnel Test is published by Wonderlic, Inc.

 

[Sly]

What gets me is that you know these guys prepared specifically for this test for several weeks.

 

[camakazee]

Here's some sample questions. My 3rd grader just got 10 of the 15 correct in 5 minutes. Unfortunately his 40 yard dash sucks and he can't bench bench 225 pounds.



http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020228test.html
See how you score on some examples from a Wonderlic IQ test.

Set your clock for five minutes, don't peek at the answers, and ... oh, yeah, run the 40 and give us some bench-presses first, would ya?

The Wonderlic Personnel Test ™
WPT ™ Sample Questions

1. Look at the row of numbers below. What number should come next?
8 4 2 1 ½ ¼ ?


2. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one:
1. true, 2. false, 3. not certain?
The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear hats. The boy wears a hat.

3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost?


9. The ninth month of the year is
1. October, 2. January, 3. June, 4. September, 5 May.

Come on, now. We've all seen these "sample Wonderlic questions," but please don't be stupid enough to think that the majority of the test questions are comprised of questions just like these. Guys aren't scoring 15's because they don't know if the correct conclusion to "Johnny has a mommy and a daddy" is "Johnny has two parents."

These are the most basic of sample questions to give someone an idea of what appears on the test. I'd imagine the actual questions are in the same light, yet more stimulating. Such as these:

1. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How many points does each boy score on average?

2. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly go without wearing the same combination of these three items?

3. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make?

4. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is the height of the box?

5. What is the average of all of the integers from 13 to 37?

6. A basketball player averaged 20 points a game over the course of six games. His scores in five of those games were 23, 18, 16, 24, and 27. How many points did he score in the sixth game?

7. Arnold is about to go on a 500-mile car trip. His mechanic recommends that he buy a special highway engine oil that will save him 50 cents in gas for every 25 miles of the trip. This new oil, however, will cost $20. Is it worthwhile for Arnold to buy the oil if he has a coupon for $4 dollars off the price?

http://www.testprepreview.com/wonderlicpracticequestions1.htm

Don't get me wrong, I still think those are terribly easy (#6 is unbelievable). But I don't want everyone out there thinking they were smarter than these guys at age 5 because they recognized a hexagon has six sides and every other shape had only four. I believe a lot of the ridiculously low scores are a direct result of simply not giving a ****. For instance, in sample question number one above, all one has to do is take the fraction of girls times their points plus the fraction of boys times their points. However, that involves setting up the equation (3/4 x 18 + 1/4 x X = 17) and then using algebra to solve for X. While it doesn't take much more than a minute to recognize the situation, set up the equation, and then solve, there is no motivation behind it. A lot of meaningless work to solve something you thought you'd never see again after college and ultimately won't help you one bit on the football field. Once again, laziness is also not an excuse, but don't think these guys are downright dumb because they have a test that asks what comes next: 1, 10, 100, X... and they don't know the answer.

 

[WestFo3]

Come on, now. We've all seen these "sample Wonderlic questions," but please don't be stupid enough to think that the majority of the test questions are comprised of questions just like these. Guys aren't scoring 15's because they don't know if the correct conclusion to "Johnny has a mommy and a daddy" is "Johnny has two parents."

These are the most basic of sample questions to give someone an idea of what appears on the test. I'd imagine the actual questions are in the same light, yet more stimulating. Such as these:



http://www.testprepreview.com/wonderlicpracticequestions1.htm

Don't get me wrong, I still think those are terribly easy (#6 is unbelievable). But I don't want everyone out there thinking they were smarter than these guys at age 5 because they recognized a hexagon has six sides and every other shape had only four. I believe a lot of the ridiculously low scores are a direct result of simply not giving a ****. For instance, in sample question number one above, all one has to do is take the fraction of girls times their points plus the fraction of boys times their points. However, that involves setting up the equation (3/4 x 18 + 1/4 x X = 17) and then using algebra to solve for X. While it doesn't take much more than a minute to recognize the situation, set up the equation, and then solve, there is no motivation behind it. A lot of meaningless work to solve something you thought you'd never see again after college and ultimately won't help you one bit on the football field. Once again, laziness is also not an excuse, but don't think these guys are downright dumb because they have a test that asks what comes next: 1, 10, 100, X... and they don't know the answer.

If they are to lazy to do a math problem they arent the player I want to draft in the top 10 of the draft to be my superstar player. IMO

 

[Maximus]

please don't be stupid enough to think that the majority of the test questions are comprised of questions just like these.

Sorry kazee, then I guess I'm stupid. I read an article that said it was a sample of questions and assumed it was a sample of the questions...I've never taken the test.

but don't think these guys are downright dumb

Not saying all the guys testing low are downright dumb. I agree some of them don't give a ****....but some of them are complete dolts. I can name a few Cavs in the last 10 years that couldn't correctly answer 8 of the 15 questions I posted.

 

[camakazee]

If they are to lazy to do a math problem they arent the player I want to draft in the top 10 of the draft to be my superstar player. IMO

This is the stupidest line of reasoning out there.

They are completely unrelated tasks. If setting up that math problem (which I'm willing to bet you wouldn't be able to do, either), is too much work to give a damn, it says nothing about their motor in professional football. Completely unrelated tasks.

Even that psycho Rush Limbaugh was too lazy to go to school for longer than a few semesters, claiming he was uninterested. Yet he still commands an audience of millions (don't know how) and a yearly salary of $33 million. Just as college didn't equal the world of entertainment for Limbaugh, tedious math/logic problems do not equal football for this year's draft class.

Sorry kazee, then I guess I'm stupid. I read an article that said it was a sample of questions and assumed it was a sample of the questions...I've never taken the test.

Neither have I, but assuming the actual test is like those watered down samples you posted is assuming that the majority of these guys are stupid (correlating their scores with the questions).

 

[MYoung23]

I dont understand how doing well or bad on timed math problems is an indicator of intelligence.

As much background as NFL teams do they can find out whether someone's grades and classwork were legit and not Basketweaving and Intro to Tupac.

 

[Cratylus]

I can remember when I was first going through the hiring process with the company I work for, I actually had to take the Wonderlic test. I remember hearing that NFL players have to take it and I was curious to see how difficult the test was and how my score would compare against how the NFL players scored.

Let me state categorically that the test is an absolute joke. 50 questions and you have (if I remember correctly) 25 minutes to finish.

Needless to say, not only did I score a perfect 50, but I finished with time to spare. I can remember thinking that anyone with a marginal level of intelligence should be able to score at least 35 with relative ease. To think that there are players who score below 20, and that many/most score below 30, is a testament to just how dumb most of these guys really are.

"Grade school stupid" is a pretty accurate description of these guys.

 

[mixman]

yeah, if those espn questions are like the real wonderlic test then anything below 30 is a joke. Pretty simple...

 

[Lee]

Here's some sample questions. My 3rd grader just got 10 of the 15 correct in 5 minutes. Unfortunately his 40 yard dash sucks and he can't bench bench 225 pounds.
.

I have taken sample wonderlic tests and done very well before....anywhere from a 37 to a 40. As for the 40 yard dash times, not so good. Personally, I use a sundial to time myself in the 40 yard dash. :chuckles:

 

[AZ_]

The average person who takes the test gets a 24.

Stafford scored a 38, which puts him in the 99th percentile of all people who take the test according to this site.

http://www.intertel-iq.org/join.php

A Harvard graduate and Kevin Curtis hold the top two scored recorded by the NFL

If that weren't enough, Curtis has brains. Each year the NFL gives a 12-minute, 50-question intelligence test called the Wonderlic to college NFL prospects. Curtis has the highest score of any active player in the NFL — a 48. Reportedly, only one player in NFL history has scored higher — Harvard grad Pat McInnally, a receiver/punter for the Cincinnati Bengals who scored a perfect 50 in 1976.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,635155947,00.html

Obviously the guy who took the test and claims perfection must be very intelligent, or took a different version of the wonderlic test, as here are some of the scores from other professions.

The average scores in other professions look like this:

Chemist: 31
Programmer: 29
Newswriter: 26
Sales: 24
Bank teller: 22
Clerical Worker: 21
Security Guard: 17
Warehouse: 15

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020228.html

A score of 10 shows that a person is literate.

Hakeem Nicks of North Carolina scored 11
Jeff George - 10
Vince Young - allegedly got a 6, then retested and got a 15
Chris Leak - 8
Chad Pennington - 25 (Remember, Pennington was once a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.)

the lowest score ever on the Wonderlic came courtesy of Darren Davis, a running back from Iowa State who scored a 4.