1You are managing a small tailoring business with several levers to adjust (staff, machines, advertising)
2Your goal is to maximise profit over 10 rounds
3Variables interact — changing one affects others in ways you must discover
4Explore systematically: vary one thing at a time to learn how the system works
What this measures
Complex problem solving tasks assess the ability to explore, model, and control dynamic systems with multiple interacting variables — a construct related to but distinct from fluid intelligence.