That may actually make the test more applicable for football, where the ability to quickly make good decisions is critical.
“That may actually make the test more applicable for football, where the ability to quickly make good decisions is critical.”
The ability to make quick physical decisions, you mean. As in, hand-eye coordination, muscle memory, instinct for when people are about to hit you from behind, etc. Not your ability to quickly answer 2+2.
Except it’s not really testing decisions, it’s testing recall and logic under speed pressure. I understand why they do it, drafting players is a huge financial investment and the future of their very valuable franchises in many ways rests on getting the right 7 guys so they’re going to throw everything they can at the guys to try to garner than one nugget of information that says go or no go. But the history shows there’s really no correlation between the wonderlic and success in the NFL. Dan Marino and Vince Young got the exact same score, that’s really all anybody needs to know.