Deep Learning
Case-based flashcards for the problems professionals actually face. Each card poses a realistic workplace case, then turns over to a worked, evidence-based solution.
The front of a card
A regional bank must choose one emotional-intelligence framework for 180 new managers. One vendor promises it “explains 58% of job performance”.
- What does each score actually measure?
- What must be shown before scores inform promotion?
- What do you do with the 58% claim?
How a card works
The front is a case drawn from real professional practice: a named setting, a decision to make and three tasks. Try it before you turn the card. The back is a professor’s worked answer, in seven parts.
- ResolutionThe answer first, in a few sentences, so you can check your own reasoning against it.
- Evidence-based reasoningWhat the research and the professional standards say, with the competing positions stated fairly where experts disagree.
- Worked solutionThe steps, in order, with every number calculated and checked.
- Decision ruleOne sentence you can carry back to the job.
- Failure modesThe mistakes capable people make with this problem, and why they make them.
- VariantA changed setting that reverses or alters the answer, so the rule is not memorised blindly.
- Anchor sourcesThe standards, guidelines and studies the card rests on. Anything not yet confirmed is flagged.
Two ways to read every card
Choose a pathway at the top of any deck and switch whenever you like. The standard of evidence is the same in both.
Simple
Plain language and everyday examples, with no specialist background needed. Written for readers outside the profession, and for professionals who want the idea before the formulas.
Advanced
Full reasoning, thresholds and formulas, the competing positions in the field, and full citations. Written for practitioners and graduate-level study.
Decks
1 deck is open. New cards are added in batches of three.
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Scenario cards on measuring and applying emotional intelligence in hiring, development, leadership, technology and culture, with Simple and Advanced pathways. All 25 cards are now published.
Workplace psychology / 25 cards
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Our standard
Every card is written to professional-school standards: precise definitions, reasoning that shows its evidence, and solutions that can be checked line by line. Cases are original. Where practice differs between countries, a card gives the global baseline first and then the regional variations.
- Sources are cited only when they can be verified. A claim that still needs checking is flagged until it has been confirmed.
- Decks in regulated fields such as medicine, law and finance are reviewed by a qualified practitioner before they are listed as published.
- Cards are for learning. They are not professional, medical, legal or financial advice, and they do not replace your own training, regulator or employer’s standards.