Notes from the WelloWork research team.
A working space for methodology notes, literature reviews, and observations from pilot cohorts. We publish work-in-progress with caveats, not finished claims.
What lives under Science & insight? Methodology notes, mini-literature reviews, and observations from early pilot cohorts. The goal is to show our working — including the places where the literature does not yet support the kind of claim a marketing page would want to make.
What can readers expect here?
Short, dated notes on a specific construct or design decision. Each note will name its primary sources, identify where it's a working hypothesis versus an established finding, and link back to the methodology overview for context.
Per-employee z-scoring removes inter-individual noise that population-relative scoring inherits. The transfer cost is measurable but small in pilot data.
What will be published first?
A small set of notes already in draft. Each will land with the caveats baked in — including null results and design changes we made in response to early data.
What this is not
This is not a marketing blog and not a peer-reviewed publication. It's the in-between layer where we keep ourselves honest in public.
Anything that reaches publication standard will be linked from here.
Why field-based research changes what we measure
Standard cognitive batteries make people better at cognitive batteries. Our scenarios are built from how work actually happens — so what we measure transfers.
Participants improve at the game. Transfer to actual workplace complexity: limited. Dozens of meta-analyses confirm this.
Designed from field observations of real workplace decisions. Measures behavioral patterns, not game skill.
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