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> Yet in this study the Wonderlic is keyed to position, not performance in that position. It's automatically keyed to performance in the position since it's ba
by akd 18y ago
> Yet in this study the Wonderlic is keyed to position, not performance in that position.
It's automatically keyed to performance in the position since it's based on NFL players, who are the people at the 99.99th or 99.999th percentile at that position.
- sfg 18y agoI think he means that of the small proportion of people who are good enough to make the NFL the coaches will have picked those that conformed to their biases. I.E. QB A and QB B are both on the edge of joining the NFL for team C. The coach cannot pick between them and so he goes for QB A who does better on the Wonderlic test.