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Individuals

How Intelligence Works Consortium

Individuals

Understand what helps you use your intelligence in real life.

Your cognitive abilities do not operate in isolation. Tasks, current state, environments, support and technology can all change what you are able to do. Individuals can help HIW identify the questions that matter, participate in research and eventually test practical tools designed around real cognitive demands.

How you can contribute

Participate in research studies

Help us study how intelligence is used across real tasks, situations and stages of life.

Complete voluntary assessments

Contribute your perspective through validated tools and carefully governed research.

Help validate new measurement tools

Support work to make measures more accurate, useful and fair.

Contribute anonymous data

Where ethics, consent and governance allow, help strengthen open scientific evidence.

Our shared mission

We believe intelligence should not only be measured. It should be understood.

By taking part, you are helping build the scientific foundations for a better understanding of how intelligence works in real life — across people, tasks, environments, support, health, technology and society.