If things are going well, you can work out the solution to a problem in your head. Common such things: writing text in your head (famous anecdote of Coleridge's Kubla Khan), looking ahead many moves in games such as chess, creating visual art, computer programming.
"Things going well" is partially means familiarity with the subject but is more than that in a way that remains to be fully explained. Someone familiar with the subject might go for a long time before the solution pops up in their mind -- inspiration. There's something psychological, maybe how rested your mind is, ready for inspiration.
One might then be able to measure a general psychological property about a person -- possibly self-qi -- by measuring how often they are inspired.
Education systems might be doing this, giving difficult assignments requiring inspiration: everyone is first made equally familiar with the material (best if it obscure, so everyone starts off equally unfamiliar) in lecture, controlling for familiarity, so success depends only on inspiration, or whatever causes it.
Other social mechanisms may also be measuring rate of inspired output.
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