What you don’t know can cost you

Assessing competence is fairly straightforward. Evaluating peoples’ wise self-awareness in applying that competence (and avoiding costly error) has been elusive, until now. Sophiometrics™ can provide new insight into how your people think and work.

Our metrics can be used both predictively (e.g., correlates with future behavior; for selection) and reflectively (revealing unconscious habits to raise awareness).

Selection: Choose Wisely

Before you spend time and money reading resumés and cover letters, cut through the noise with a brief, online Sophiometrics test. Our MetaKnowledge™ Index (MKI) can indicate who is more likely to be mis-representing themselves, be careless, or whose sense of entitlement can corrode cooperation. In conjunction with your existing screening, our data provides novel insights to choose quality candidates from the start.

MKI scores also provide excellent interview material to probe how people negotiate challenge and uncertainty. Situational Judgment Tests are hypothetical, low-fidelity, slow, and easily faked. MKI scores capture real-life behavior efficiently and objectively.

Reflection: Training Self-Awareness

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, despite having little (if any) scientific validity, became popular because it facilitated reflection and discussion of individual differences. A Sophiometrics assessment can be used similarly, yet is grounded in solid science. Results reveal thought patterns and unconscious habits that many ignore, until too late. Contact us to learn how we can elevate your organizational wisdom.

Research: Identify and Reclaim Value

The marginal error of the many little decisions made every day can snowball into serious costs (e.g., how Nick Leeson brought down Britain’s oldest bank). Sophiometrics provides a way to capture the butterfly that might trigger a hurricane. If your organization has objective metrics on judgment costs you want to minimize, talk to us about building a research project to scientifically link mental habits with your profitability.