FOKIQ methodology — what we measure, and what we never claim

No. A FOKIQ score is a modeled estimate, not a normed clinical sample, and not a clinical diagnosis. It is computed from your last few FOKIQ Daily sessions and mapped onto the six cognitive domains. A real IQ test is administered by a licensed psychologist, normed against a representative population, and validated for clinical and educational decisions. FOKIQ is none of those things — it is a daily game that gives you an honest, transparent read on how you played, not a number to put on a form.

FOKIQ measures your in-game performance across six cognitive domains — pattern recognition, working memory, spatial reasoning, processing speed, logical reasoning, and verbal reasoning — using the puzzles you solved, how fast you solved them, and how accurate you were. Each domain is attributed to the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) framework so the label maps to a published model of human cognition. What it measures is your play on a specific set of FOKIQ puzzles, on a specific day, against the same daily puzzle everyone else got.

The Cattell-Horn-Carroll model is the most widely used taxonomy of human cognitive abilities in modern psychometrics. It organizes cognition into broad abilities such as fluid reasoning (Gf), visual processing (Gv), processing speed (Gs), working memory (Gwm), and crystallized knowledge (Gc). FOKIQ maps each of its six domains onto these published CHC abilities so that our domain labels are anchored to a peer-reviewed framework rather than invented in-house. We cite the framework so you can verify the mapping yourself — we do not claim to have validated FOKIQ against the CHC norming samples.

Because that is the honest description of what we produce. A clinical norm requires testing a large, demographically representative sample under controlled conditions and publishing the distribution. FOKIQ does not do that. We model your domain estimate from your own recent play, so it is a self-relative read that improves as you play more — useful for tracking yourself over time, not for comparing yourself against a clinical population. Saying so plainly is the whole point: it is the one thing we will never blur to make the number sound more impressive.

Comparison figures such as prevalence of a Brain Type are computed from FOKIQ players, and we label them as a modeled estimate, not a normed clinical sample. When you see a number that compares you to other players, it is drawn from the FOKIQ population that played the same shared daily puzzle, not from a standardized national norm. We never invent a population figure to make a result feel rarer than it is, and we never quote a statistic we cannot trace back to our own data.

Subscription brain-training apps that charge sixty to eighty-four dollars a year are under economic pressure to make their numbers sound like clinical truth — an overclaim is how a paid tier justifies itself. A forever-free daily game is under no such pressure. That lets us do the one thing the paid incumbents structurally cannot: tell you exactly what the number is and exactly what it is not, in plain sight, on a page like this one. The honest read is the feature.

You can use it as a self-relative signal, with care. Because the daily puzzle is the same for everyone and your estimate is modeled from your own recent sessions, watching your six-domain MindMap shift over weeks can be a motivating, directional read on your own play. It is not a medical instrument. If you have a genuine concern about memory, attention, or cognitive change, that is a conversation for a licensed clinician using validated tools, not a daily puzzle game.