The Measure of a Man Research

2026-10-13 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on Substack: https://hochanhnghia.substack.com/p/the-measure-of-a-man-research

This research should be a book. It will be — it is the literature review for Life is War. But I am busy building the tech stack, so I am releasing the research to the world now, as it stands.

The Measure of a Man Research is the full literature review on a single question: how do you measure a man?

Inside: the ten ancient measures, from Socrates to Cincinnatus. The judging systems of the Chinese sages — the Eight Observations, the Nine Signs, Zhuge Liang’s seven tests, Liu Shao’s science of partial talents. Kautilya’s temptation matrix from India. The verdicts of Greece and Rome, the Islamic world, Russia, and Germany. Modern military and intelligence psychometrics after 1970 — what the science validated, and what it sold that never worked. The questions that know a man. And the composite system assembled from all of them.

Read the research: https://muse.ai/s/the-measure-of-a-man-research-xoxt69xqxv8xvxckxu

It also lives on the VietComUS portal, in the Wisdom section: https://muse.ai/s/vietcomus-axq69xdxoxwxk4xws

By Ho Chanh Nghia