Oh Yee of little reading comprehension, let us bring you up to speed.
The first thing that we are going to talk about today class is the difference between a "rumor" and "fact". The talk was, indeed, in reference to a "rumor" that had been circulating around the NFL combine.
ru·mor Pronunciation Key (rmr)
n.
1. A piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth.
2. Unverified information received from another; hearsay.
This means that it is not necessarily true nor is it false. However, you seem to just take it for fact.
Let's take a look at all of the evidence that is against this rumor.
First off, let us read an article published by the Houston Chronicle.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3687374.html
The headline is, and I quote, "False score gives Young wrong kind of buzz". The headline seems to be saying that Vince Young's score wasn't really 6. But was it? Let us read on to find out.
So, the test was improperly given, and then the mistake was corrected and it was properly administered, whereby the rumor is that he scored a 16.
This means that the first time, if he DID score a 6, was NOT a fair score on the Wonderlic.
But further proof that this is just a rumor lies in that last sentence. "Because they are included in combine results given to teams after the combine, scores leak out."
Note that the results aren't given to teams until AFTER the combine, which means that the teams haven't even received the official Wonderlic results left.
You are completely, 100% wrong with your assessment of what happened.
According to that Houston Cronicle article, let me quote some opinions of people who work professionally in the NFL.
So the Wonderlic, while it is just ONE way to test for the ability to make decisions, it isn't THE way to test for the ability to make decisions.
Let's take a look at some of the quarterbacks over the years that have scored a 16 or less on one of their accurate attempts, like apparently Vince Young did
(these statistics courtesy of http://www.unc.edu/~mirabile/Wonderlic.htm)
Losman, J.P.
Culpepper, Daunte
McNabb, Donovan
McNair, Steve
Cunningham, Randall
Marino, Dan
Now, let us take a look at some of the quarterbacks over the years that did exceptionally well by scoring a 30 or above on one of their accurate attempts:
Losman, J.P.
Bledsoe, Drew (who we all know makes extremely quick decisions)
Henson, Drew
Harrington, Joey
Brown, Travis
Smith, Akili
Griese, Brian
So yeah, this test must really measure whether someone is smart or stupid. Also, it is a pretty good indicator of how good someone will be on the football field.