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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 17
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    Donald MacKinnon has a fascinating series of quantitative papers on creativity in the late 60's. He gets architecture profs to rank the creativity of pro architects (and likewise with mathematicians and research scientists), then gets them to take various psychometric tests.

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      2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 17
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        He finds poor correlation between creativity rankings of all these groups and IQ[1], but fairly strong effects associated with various personality factors—e.g. Big Five openness to experience (d=0.31) and CPI tolerance (d=0.77) and self-acceptance (d=0.69) among researchers[2].

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      3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 17
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        I was surprised also to see how many identical twins some researchers had managed to pull together to study the heritability of these psychometric scales! [e.g. 3, > 100!] [1] http://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/MacKinnon%20-%201968%20-%20Selecting%20students%20with%20creative%20potential.pdf … ch. 7 [2] http://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Hall,%20MacKinnon%20-%201969%20-%20Personality%20inventory%20correlates%20of%20creativity%20among%20architects.pdf … [3] http://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Jang%20et%20al.%20-%201996%20-%20Heritability%20of%20the%20Big%20Five%20Personality%20Dimension.pdf …

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        I found a bunch of nice meta-analyses around these topics (e.g. [4] was quite a nice bibliography), but creativity is awfully nebulous, and these methods are awfully diverse, so I'm not sure how much sense aggregation really makes. [4] http://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Feist%20-%201998%20-%20A%20Meta-Analysis%20of%20Personality%20in%20Scientific%20and%20Artistic%20Creativity.pdf …

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      2. Joel Chan, #slowthespread, support your neighbors!‏ @JoelChan86 Apr 17
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        Great stuff! Have you looked into the work of Dean Simonton? Some fascinating stuff there too! Was on @Rspodcast some time ago: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-213-dean-simonton-on-the-causes-of-scientific-and-artisti.html …

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        No—thank you for the reference!🙇‍♂️

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        I figure creative success is a matter of trying to solve concrete problems. One critique of string theory, for instance, is that it aims to improve physics without trying to solve any concrete physics problem.

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