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Organisations

How Intelligence Works Consortium

Organisations

What does the work actually require — and have we created conditions in which capable people can do it?

Organisations can help HIW map the cognitive demands of real tasks, study person-task fit and working conditions, and test how task design, accessibility, support and technology change performance.

How you can contribute

Workplace studies

Study roles, real-world tasks, cognitive demands and the conditions under which people perform.

Learning environments

Explore how structure, challenge, tools and support affect learning and performance.

Task analysis

Help map the actual tasks people perform and the cognitive demands those tasks create.

Human performance research

Collaborate on research into how people use their abilities under different conditions.

Environmental influences

Study how physical, social, technological and institutional settings shape outcomes.

The goal is to understand contexts, not to rank individual employees. Consortium collaborations should never become hidden selection systems or mechanisms for individual surveillance.

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.