Search Check is an experimental How Intelligence Works tool for testing search behaviour, benchmark recovery, relevance patterns, database translations and query revisions in one auditable workflow.
A tool-independent guide to research provenance: how to preserve questions, hypotheses, evidence, AI contributions, analyses, findings and claims as an investigation develops.
A practical, tool-independent guide to evaluating literature-search quality using relevance diagnostics, benchmark papers, relative recall, database-specific testing, PRESS and PRISMA-S.
Your phone lights up while you are driving. The notification automatically attracts attention, and checking it is an available response. Not checking requires the current goal—driving safely—to remain more influential than the competing impulse.
Intelligence helps us reason through problems; creativity concerns producing ideas or products that are both original and appropriate.
You intend to finish a report, but a message arrives. You notice it, resist opening it, keep the purpose of the current paragraph in mind, discover that your original plan is not working, switch strategies and check the result against your goal.
Executive functions help control thought and action toward a goal. Intelligence is broader—and the overlap between them is real without making them identical.
You are reading while a conversation takes place nearby. The sound reaches your ears, but most of it does not enter the center of what you are doing.
Ability helps produce achievement, but an achievement is the result of ability plus learning, effort, opportunity and many other conditions.
You can remember the meaning of democracy without remembering when you learned the word. You may remember your first day at a new job as an event. You can ride a bicycle without consciously retrieving a verbal instruction for each movement.