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Thats my thought too. I don't know why guys like Manningham or Vince Young are getting 6s on the Wonderlic. Maybe they were stoned when they were advised by their coaches to skip to the back of the test book, or maybe they skipped their team meeting for combine prep. Hell, maybe they're so bright they just figured they didn't need to be given any advice on how to approach the Wonderlic. I have no idea.
Really, anything below an 8 is comparable to being illiterate, so you figure anyone that can pass admissions to a major U is going to be able to manage at least a 10-15, presumably without much effort.
Just stating that, and I'm thinking it was probably Marcellus Wiley, a Columbia grad who scored a 40+ on the Wonderlic, who mentioned that the key was to skip all the essays and do all the math first.
His statement was that you could take two people of comparable intelligence, and if one of them "prepared" for the Wonderlic and the other didn't, they might score 25 points higher.
Maybe some of these low scores are from guys who are just really bad at math or write long winded essay answers and get stuck on the very first one. Just pointing out that the Wonderlic is a very brief, quickly timed test that probably isn't as fair an assessment of intelligence as any of a dozen other types of tests that are out there.
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