Hey, besides the paycheck and interesting job, Albert Pujols also gets access to fun diversions, including a battery of tests once used on George Herman Ruth.
Among the tests Prince Albert is reported as taking are hand-eye coordination and cognitive assessments. No big surprise: Pujols scored out of sight on hand-eye coordination and showed an unusual (anecdotally, anyway) and apparently baseball-useful way of processing visual information.
Details offered in the wire stories are sparse, but it sounds like he got to have some fun. Naturally, one version of the story had to quote a researcher as saying that the individual skills weren't as impressive as the total package, which is no doubt true but also echoes what another test taker - with whom I am intimately familiar - was told after scoring well on some assessments.
"The scores aren't what's important. It's what you do with those abilities."
No kidding. But if the scores aren't important, why did you ask me to take the tests?
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Assumably (ha ha!) those tests have predictive validity. If they do then performance on them can be used to predict what you might do with your skills.
Yeah, supposably. Plus, the tests are fun...
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