About the Demonstrable Human Capability Assessment
The Demonstrable Human Capability Assessment (DHCA) measures what a person can actually do: understand, apply, reason, learn, create, communicate and produce. It is run by Marenacio Banks LLC.
How it works
- Every participant gets a different randomized set of tasks, taking about 25–30 minutes.
- Tasks include multiple-choice questions, interactive simulations, hidden-rule experiments, written design problems and a short lesson in a new system that you then apply.
- For most answers you also say how confident you are. Your calibration, how well your confidence matched your accuracy, is reported separately.
- At the end you see your scores by domain and can download a PDF report.
What it measures
- World Understanding (12%): Explaining how physical, economic and social systems work.
- Practical Intelligence (15%): Choosing sound actions in realistic everyday and emergency situations.
- Engineering Reasoning (12%): Mechanical, electrical and structural reasoning, including interactive simulations.
- Learning Agility (10%): Learning a new rule system mid-test and applying it, including in reverse.
- Novel Problem Solving (15%): Discovering hidden rules by experiment and designing solutions to unfamiliar problems.
- Creativity & Invention (12%): Inventing practical solutions from constrained resources.
- Communication (10%): Explaining clearly to non-experts and critiquing plans constructively.
- Systems Optimization (9%): Allocating limited resources across interacting systems, including through shocks.
- Productive Achievement (5%): Self-reported accomplishments by independence level, plus an optional reviewed work sample.
Why "demonstrable"
Every score keeps its evidence: the task, your answer, how it was scored, how long it took and the conditions it was taken under. That lets the administrator check and justify any result. Written answers and optional work samples can be reviewed by a person against a rubric.
Limits
The DHCA is an illustrative instrument, not a validated psychometric test. Written answers are scored with a keyword rubric and should be reviewed by an expert before any high-stakes use.