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Thinking

This does not measure how clever you are. It cannot. What it looks at is the order in which you think — the shape of it, nothing else.

Self-report cannot measure intelligence. The correlation between how able people believe they are and how able they turn out to be is weak, and confidence arrives first. So OCTA does not rank anyone in this layer. Starting from the abstract or from the concrete, opening up before narrowing or narrowing before opening up — each has its strengths and its blind spots, and none of them is above another.