Wonderlic Test
The Wonderlic Personnel Test is a twelve-minute, fifty-question test used to assess the aptitude of prospective employees for learning and problem-solving in a range of occupations. The test was developed by industrial psychologist Eldon F. Wonderlic. The score is calculated as the number of correct answers given in the allotted time. A score of 20 is intended to indicate average intelligence (corresponding to an intelligence quotient of 100; a rough conversion is accomplished via the following formula: IQ = (2WPT + 60). A new version was released in January 2007 called the Wonderlic Personnel Test – Revised. It contains questions more appropriate to the 21st century.
Football and “The Wonderlic”
No one knows for certain who first used the WPT to forecast performance as a football player. Nevertheless, one of the earliest and most enthusiastic users was Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys. Coach Landry found that WPT scores were related to learning the team playbook and to adaptability.
Players who exercise greater options, from week to week and from play to play, need to score higher. Certainly, the WPT has no relationship to how fast a player can run or how accurately a player can pass the ball. Yet, each player must run and pass as part of a team, and individual players become a team through their training grounded by their team playbook. How well a player will learn the playbook and adapt within the scope of the team is forecast by the WPT. Of course, this is true for any team, in any workplace.
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