The test was created in 1939 by Eldon F Wonderlic, while he was a graduate student at Northwestern University.
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The test was created in 1939 by Eldon F Wonderlic, while he was a graduate student at Northwestern University.
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The Wonderlic test was based on the Otis Self-Administering Test of Mental Ability with the goal of creating a short form measurement of cognitive ability.
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Wonderlic test is continually being updated with repeated evaluations of questions.
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Also, beginning in the 1970s, Wonderlic began to develop other forms of the Wonderlic Personnel, some of which include: Wonderlic Perceptual Ability Tests, Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam, or the Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test.
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The Wonderlic Personnel Test is a much more comprehensive test.
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The types of questions that have appeared in the oldest versions of the Wonderlic test include: analogies, analysis of geometric figures, arithmetic, direction following, disarranged sentences, judgment, logic, proverb matching, similarities, and word definitions.
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Six forms of this test are made available in which Wonderlic suggests that when two of these versions are to be used, the best combinations are A and B or D and F However, a study conducted by psychologists Kazmier and Browne shows that neither of these forms can be regarded as directly equivalent.
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The Wonderlic test has been peer reviewed by the American Psychological Association and has been deemed worthy of field applications to the industrial use of personnel testing.
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Similarly, a 2009 study by Brian D Lyons, Brian J Hoffman, and John W Michel found that Wonderlic scores failed to positively and significantly predict future NFL performance, draft position, or the number of games started for any position.
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The Madden version of the Wonderlic test is taken in "Superstar Mode" portion of the game, to make the game experience more realistic, although, it is optional.
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