The Human Intelligence Diagnostic produces scores across all nine intelligences. These scores reflect your experienced availability: how accessible each capacity feels to you right now. They are not fixed traits. Every intelligence can be developed.
This capacity flows naturally and shapes how you operate. It is highly available, feels effortless, and likely influences your identity and self-concept. You draw on this intelligence automatically.
This capacity is available when needed without significant friction. You can access it reliably, though it may not define you. It supports your functioning without requiring special attention.
This capacity exists but costs noticeable energy. You can do it, but it creates recurring friction. Tasks requiring this intelligence feel harder than they should, and you may avoid situations that demand it.
This capacity drains energy and undermines your whole system. It is unreliable enough to affect other intelligences. This is not inability; it means this area costs you far more than it should.
It means this capacity currently costs you more energy than it should. That is friction, not failure. The difference matters: friction can be addressed. Labels stick.
The distance between your highest and lowest scores. Larger gaps often create internal friction. Your strengths have to work overtime to compensate for friction areas.
100 minus your Gap. Higher integration means your intelligences support each other more evenly. This is often more valuable than a single high score.
Your average score minus a penalty for imbalance. This gives a truer picture of overall functioning than simple aggregation.
When a Strength score (75+) appears alongside a score below 50, with a gap of 30+ points between them, this may indicate a compensation pattern. Your strength is routing around your friction area.
Compensation patterns are intelligent responses to limitation. They work, up to a point. The question is whether your strength is masking friction that will eventually create problems.
Example: High Cognitive Intelligence compensating for low Operational Intelligence might look like "I can figure anything out" but manifest as "I understand everything and finish nothing."
The goal is not to maximise every score. A profile with all scores at 60 (all Stable) often functions better than a profile with three scores at 90 and three at 25.
You do not need to develop all nine to the same level. You need to develop each to a threshold that prevents it from undermining the others.
The goal is to become a functional human: someone whose capacities are developed enough, across enough domains, that life works.
The diagnostic takes about 15 minutes. Answer honestly based on what you actually do, not what you think you should do.