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Are intelligence and creativity really so different? In our new preprint, we aimed to quantify the overlap of intelligence and creativity (DT) in brain & behavior We found ~40% of the variance in creativity scores could be explained by g! More here: http://psyarxiv.com/hj3fr/ pic.twitter.com/ds0RFcO4Y1
Shouts out to the lead author, Emily Frith - a grad student from UMiss who visited our lab over the summer - and all our outstanding co-authors: @danielelbich, @alexpaulchrist, @monicarosenb, @cqllogic, Paul Silvia, and @Paul_Seli!
Just read the paper in its entirety; despite my quibbles it's a very well done study and I am so impressed with how far you have come in your career and am so proud of you, Roger!
Thank you, Scott! This work wouldn't have been possible without the support of you and the Templeton Foundation/Imagination Institute. So much important work came from that project - thanks to your vision and commitment to the future of creativity research
Nice work, but 40% of the variance is not really great prediction when it comes to predicting an individual's creative thinking based on their IQ score, especially in a high-stakes testing environment.
I would add that divergent thinking isn't a pure measure of creativity. That 40% of predicted variance could reflect non-creative processes like working-memory capacity etc. That said, the fluid intelligence part of IQ probably does support people's ability to deal with novelty.
I was amused to discover reading https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/writing/1970-vernon-creativity.pdf … from 1970 that even then, creativity studies had been dogged for decades by the problem of distinguishing a measure of 'creativity' from just good old intelligence. Seems the relationship runs deep indeed.
I read a consultant's book 1987 advising Corps on young engineer appointments (Hewlett Packard printers) with the express requirement that they had to be creative. His tests then identified conservative upbringing as a pointer.
Very cool! Although DT tests can be similar to the measures of g in terms of the structural features?
Can anyone think of an example which contradicts this correlation between IQ and creativity? Any famous artistic people who were famously creative, yet appeared to be of low intelligence?
As you say @Roger_Beaty et al. going to be fascinating to compare with domain-specific measures of creativity as we move forward. Very different methods to above (2017), using the CAT and KBIT (IQ was a CV), I couldn't find a correlation for graphic design creativity.
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