| Abstract: | Having (just barely) survived 20 years of sentimentality in which half of psychology attempted to supplant competence by personal adjustment, we now appear to be entering another equally unproductive period in which creativity will be lauded above all other human attributes, particularly that of intelligence. I have just read a study of creativity in which the investigators again found little relationship between intelligence and creativity. Their measurements of intelligence were based upon whatever happened to be already available. Is it too much to expect that experimenters in this area be at least minimally sophisticated in test construction, analysis, and theory if they base most of their conclusions on test data? Before creativity research gets completely out of control, some effort must be devoted to definitions of terms. Creativity research will flounder until the measuring instruments and procedures are improved, at least to the level of current test theory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
