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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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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Great stuff! Have you looked into the work of Dean Simonton? Some fascinating stuff there too! Was on
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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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