EVIDENCE LIBRARY

See the source before you decide it is worth your attention.

Noesis places primary sources beside the product conclusions that are not yet established.

These are currently public, traceable source records—not an available-tool list, a claim of product-level validation, or a statement that a feature is supported.

Current status · Source traceable; no product-level validation claim.

IPIP Core Strengths

Public character-strengths item source

IPIP’s Core Strengths table is an entry point for tracing a public-domain item source.

Reading limit: It is not the VIA Institute’s VIA-IS and does not establish validity or norms for any group.

Current status · Primary research traceable; no product-level validation claim.

Financial literacy research

Research source for Big Three question types

Lusardi and Mitchell’s work is an important source for understanding Big Three question types and their limits.

Reading limit: Education, language, item exposure, and context affect responses; a composite is not investment advice or an ability norm.

Lusardi & Mitchell DOI

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Big Five quick screen (IPIP-derived)

Public MCP tool citation (commercial use approved)

Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In Personality Psychology in Europe, Vol. 7 (pp. 7–28). This chapter carries no independently citable DOI, so the link below is IPIP’s own public permission statement rather than the chapter itself.

Release record: instrument.big-five-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: IPIP public-domain permission
Source records: source.ipip-permission.v1International Personality Item Pool permission statement
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded IPIP-derived public tool release. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: This records the release scope and its IPIP rights basis. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

IPIP permission statement

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

IPIP Core Strengths — public tool release

Public MCP tool citation (commercial use approved)

Partsch, M. V., Olaru, G., & Lechner, C. M. (2024). Measuring global character dimensions: An ant colony optimization approach. Journal of Personality Assessment. This is the release record for the public MCP tool itself, distinct from the “IPIP Core Strengths” source record above, which documents only item provenance and does not announce a live tool.

Release record: instrument.ipip-core-strengths-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: IPIP public-domain permission
Source records: source.ipip-permission.v1International Personality Item Pool permission statementsource.ipip-core-strengths-table.v1IPIP Core Strengths table
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded IPIP-derived public tool release. It is not a VIA-IS implementation claim and does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: This is not a VIA Institute VIA-IS implementation claim. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

IPIP-NEO-120

Public MCP tool citation (commercial use approved)

Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78–89. The formal release record also cites IPIP’s public permission statement and the 30-facet item table; the specific inventory citation is included here alongside them.

Release record: instrument.ipip-neo120-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: IPIP public-domain permission
Source records: source.ipip-permission.v1International Personality Item Pool permission statementsource.ipip-30-facet-table.v1IPIP 30-facet NEO-PI-R item table
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded IPIP-derived public tool release. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: This records the release scope and its IPIP rights basis. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

IPIP-HEXACO

Public MCP tool citation (commercial use approved)

Ashton, M. C., Lee, K., & Goldberg, L. R. (2007). The IPIP–HEXACO scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(8), 1515–1526. The formal release record also cites IPIP’s public permission statement; the specific inventory citation is included here alongside it. IPIP-HEXACO is the public-domain item set, not the separately licensed HEXACO-60, and the two must not be conflated.

Release record: instrument.ipip-hexaco-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: IPIP public-domain permission
Source records: source.ipip-permission.v1International Personality Item Pool permission statement
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded IPIP-derived public tool release, resting on the same public-domain IPIP permission statement as the other IPIP-derived records here. It is expressly not a release of the separately licensed HEXACO-60, whose own terms this product does not meet and which is therefore not offered; IPIP-HEXACO is a different, public-domain item set, not a route around those terms. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: This is not a HEXACO-60 licensing claim. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Cognitive Reflection Test 2 (CRT-2)

Public MCP tool citation (commercial use approved)

Thomson, K. S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2016). Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(1), 99–113. The CC BY 3.0 licence is printed on the article’s own first page and permits reuse with attribution; it does not extend to earlier, differently licensed cognitive reflection test forms.

Release record: instrument.crt-2-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: performance
Rights basis: CC BY 3.0 attribution licence
Source records: source.crt2-cc-by-3.v1Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test (CRT-2)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded CRT-2 public tool release under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence printed on its source article, which permits reuse with attribution. It covers CRT-2 alone: the earlier cognitive reflection forms are separately and more restrictively licensed and are not offered. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: This records the licence basis and release scope. It does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Thomson & Oppenheimer (2016), Judgment and Decision Making

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Forecast calibration exercise

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

A Noesis-original interval-estimation exercise that records how often a person’s own stated confidence ranges contain the true value. It does not measure financial knowledge and reproduces no third-party item text, and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation. It is a different instrument from financial_literacy (the Lusardi & Mitchell financial-knowledge questions cited in the source record above, which remains withheld pending rights clearance and is not publicly live) — different scoring, different permissible conclusions, and the two must not be cited interchangeably.

Release record: instrument.financial-calibration-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: performance
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored interval-estimation exercise. It records how often a person’s own stated confidence ranges contain the true value, and it deliberately does not measure financial knowledge: the third-party financial-literacy items this tool once scored alongside it were separated into a different instrument that stays withheld, so a calibration result must never be read as a literacy result. Forecast calibration is not a previously published psychometric scale, reproduces no third-party item text, and has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Cross-cultural adaptability

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

A Noesis-original instrument. It draws only on unprotected published theoretical structure as background, reproduces no third-party item text, and has not undergone independent psychometric validation.

Release record: instrument.cross-cultural-adaptability-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored instrument. Cross-cultural adaptability is not a previously published psychometric scale: it draws only on unprotected published theoretical structure as background, reproduces no third-party item text, and has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Research and analysis

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

Release record: instrument.research-analysis-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored instrument. Research and analysis is not a previously published psychometric scale: it draws only on unprotected published theoretical structure as background, reproduces no third-party item text, and has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Self-regulated learning

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

A Noesis-original instrument. No MSLQ or LASSI item text is reproduced; its theoretical grounding is cited only as background, and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation.

Release record: instrument.self-regulated-learning-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored instrument. Self-regulated learning is not a previously published psychometric scale: no MSLQ or LASSI item text is reproduced, its theoretical grounding is cited only as background, and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Charisma

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

A Noesis-original, self-report instrument. No GCI item text is reproduced, it takes no facial or image input of any kind, and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation.

Release record: instrument.charisma-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored instrument. Charisma is not a previously published psychometric scale: no GCI item text is reproduced, the instrument takes no facial or image input of any kind (self-report items only), and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (authenticated MCP tool)

Reasoning ability

Noesis original design (commercial use approved)

A Noesis-original instrument. No GSM8K or BIG-Bench-Hard dataset item is reproduced; every entry in its answer key was independently re-derived and re-verified during review, and it has not undergone independent psychometric validation.

Release record: instrument.reasoning-ability-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-tool-release
Instrument type: performance
Rights basis: Noesis original authorship
Source records: source.noesis-original-authorship-review.v1Noesis original-authorship instrument review record (2026-09-01)
Release limitation: This narrowly approves the recorded public tool release of an originally Noesis-authored instrument. Reasoning ability is not a previously published psychometric scale: no GSM8K or BIG-Bench-Hard dataset item is reproduced, every entry in its exact-match answer key was independently re-derived and re-verified during review, and the instrument has not undergone independent psychometric validation. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Noesis original design, not independently psychometrically validated. This does not establish product-level validation or an individual conclusion.

Public release record

Current status · Approved public release (non-commercial use only; wording must not be altered)

Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

Public MCP tool citation (non-commercial use only)

Hull, L., Mandy, W., Lai, M.-C., Baron-Cohen, S., Allison, C., Smith, P., & Petrides, K. V. (2019). Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(3), 819–833. The article itself carries CC BY 4.0 per PubMed Central licence metadata; the authors’ own resource page separately states that no one may change the wording or charge anyone to use or interpret it, and this release follows that stricter author statement rather than the more permissive article licence.

Release record: instrument.cat-q-public-noncommercial-mcp.v1
controlled-public-noncommercial-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Authors' non-commercial public-use restriction
Source records: source.cat-q-cc-by.v1Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)
Release limitation: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY, AND NO CHANGES TO THE ITEM WORDING. The resource page maintained by the CAT-Q authors states that no one may change the wording, or charge anyone else to use or interpret the questionnaire. Note the scope: that forecloses charging for interpretation of a result, not only for administering it. The underlying paper is separately CC BY 4.0, which would permit commercial reuse; that is not disputed, but this record follows the explicit written restriction from the authors rather than the more permissive reading, and only their written permission should change it. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so the condition is satisfied today rather than pending, which is why the instrument is publicly listed rather than withheld. It remains a standing condition: were any paid tier ever to cover this instrument or its interpretation, this record would have to be revisited first. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Non-commercial use only, and the item wording must not be changed. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so this condition is satisfied today rather than pending — but it is a standing condition that must be revisited if that ever changes. This does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Current status · Approved public release (non-commercial use only)

Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)

Public MCP tool citation (non-commercial use only)

Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The Satisfaction With Life Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49(1), 71–75. Co-author Robert A. Emmons confirmed continued non-commercial permission by email on 2026-08-27, matching the authors’ own published position at eddiener.com.

Release record: instrument.swls-public-noncommercial-mcp.v1
controlled-public-noncommercial-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Author-confirmed non-commercial permission
Source records: source.swls-noncommercial-grant.v1SWLS non-commercial permission record (2026-08-27)
Release limitation: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. The co-author’s confirmation for the Satisfaction With Life Scale permits continued use for non-commercial purposes and grants no commercial use at all, matching the rights holders’ own published position. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so that condition is satisfied today rather than pending — which is why the instrument is publicly listed rather than withheld — but it is a standing condition, not a settled one. Were Noesis to stop being non-commercial this permission would no longer be satisfied and this record would have to be revisited before the instrument could continue to be offered. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Non-commercial use only. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so this condition is satisfied today rather than pending, but it remains a standing condition. This does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin (1985) DOI

Current status · Approved public release (non-commercial use only)

Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ)

Public MCP tool citation (non-commercial use only)

Steger, M. F., Frazier, P., Oishi, S., & Kaler, M. (2006). The Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53(1), 80–93. Lead author Michael F. Steger authorised inclusion in Noesis by email on 2026-08-12, on the conditions that the scale is never commercialised for profit, collected responses are used only to produce the respondent’s own result, and the source is credited.

Release record: instrument.mlq-public-noncommercial-mcp.v1
controlled-public-noncommercial-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Author-granted non-commercial permission
Source records: source.mlq-noncommercial-grant.v1MLQ non-commercial permission record (2026-08-12)
Release limitation: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. The author’s permission for the Meaning in Life Questionnaire reaches non-commercial use and no further, on three conditions this release must keep satisfying: the scale is never commercialised for profit, responses are used only to produce the respondent’s own result, and the source is credited. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so the conditions are satisfied today rather than pending — which is why the instrument is publicly listed rather than withheld — but they are standing conditions, not settled ones. Were Noesis to stop being non-commercial this permission would no longer be satisfied and this record would have to be revisited before the instrument could continue to be offered; any commercial use would require a separate agreement with the author and the copyright-holding university. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Non-commercial use only. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so this condition is satisfied today rather than pending, but it remains a standing condition. This does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Steger, Frazier, Oishi & Kaler (2006) DOI

Current status · Approved public release (non-commercial use only)

Aspiration Index

Public MCP tool citation (non-commercial use only)

Kasser, T., & Ryan, R. M. (1996). Further examining the American dream. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22(3), 280–287. Co-author Tim Kasser asked, in the same thread, whether free users would necessarily see marketing or advertising; Noesis’s reply included a standing commitment to remain permanently free and ad-free, and Kasser confirmed on 2026-08-27 that this addressed his concern and granted non-commercial permission, closing the thread the same day.

Release record: instrument.aspiration-index-public-noncommercial-mcp.v1
controlled-public-noncommercial-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: Author-granted non-commercial permission
Source records: source.aspiration-index-noncommercial-grant.v1Aspiration Index non-commercial permission record (2026-08-27)
Release limitation: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. The co-author’s permission for the Aspiration Index covers non-commercial inclusion in this product and nothing wider. Noesis is free and shows no advertising, which is the specific condition the rights holder asked about, and he confirmed this addressed his concern before granting permission, so it is satisfied today rather than pending — which is why the instrument is publicly listed rather than withheld. It remains a standing condition, not a one-time check: were Noesis to stop being non-commercial or ad-free, or were the rights holder to add a condition, this permission would no longer be settled and this record would have to be revisited before the instrument could continue to be offered. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Non-commercial use only. This condition is satisfied today rather than pending, but it remains a standing condition and must be revisited if the product’s nature changes or the author later raises a further condition. This does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

Kasser & Ryan (1996) DOI

Current status · Approved public release (non-commercial use only; wording must not be altered)

Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ21)

Public MCP tool citation (non-commercial use only)

Schwartz, S. H. (2021). A Repository of Schwartz Value Scales with Instructions and an Introduction. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(2). Schwartz’s own scale-library entry carries a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence: non-commercial use with attribution is permitted, but shortening, rewording, re-translating, or otherwise adapting the item text is not.

Release record: instrument.pvq21-public-mcp.v1
controlled-public-noncommercial-tool-release
Instrument type: self-report
Rights basis: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 non-commercial licence
Source records: source.pvq21-orpc-public-license.v1Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ21) entry in Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
Release limitation: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY, AND NO CHANGES TO THE ITEM WORDING. The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 licence on the rights holder’s own scale-library entry carries three standing obligations this release must keep satisfying: it is never sold, licensed on, or placed behind payment; the item text is used verbatim and must never be shortened, reworded, re-translated, or otherwise adapted; and the source is credited. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so the non-commercial condition is satisfied today rather than pending — which is why the instrument is publicly listed rather than withheld — but both it and the no-derivatives obligation are standing conditions, not settled ones. Were Noesis to stop being non-commercial, or were the item wording to be altered, this permission would no longer be satisfied and this record would have to be revisited before the instrument could continue to be offered. This record does not establish product-level validation, norms, translation equivalence, an individual conclusion, or named-host support.

Reading limit: Non-commercial use only, and the item wording must not be changed. Noesis is free and carries no advertising, so this condition is satisfied today rather than pending, but it remains a standing condition. This does not establish product-level validation, norms, or an individual conclusion.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Evidence & Limits notes

Independent public notes that separate a design proposal from a release, validation, or host-support claim.

IPIP 30-facet item source

IPIP Core Strengths

Financial literacy research

Big Five quick screen (IPIP-derived)

IPIP Core Strengths — public tool release

IPIP-NEO-120

IPIP-HEXACO

Cognitive Reflection Test 2 (CRT-2)

Forecast calibration exercise

Cross-cultural adaptability

Research and analysis

Self-regulated learning

Charisma

Reasoning ability

Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)

Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ)

Aspiration Index

Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ21)

Evidence & Limits notes