A simple word test can reveal how creative you are

By Alex O'Brien

Do words talk louder than pictures?

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Are you a creative person? This question is hard to reply objectively, but present researchers accidental that asking radical to sanction random words and assessing however antithetic they are could beryllium a caller mode to measurement creativity.

Jay Olson astatine Harvard University and his colleagues telephone this connection puzzle the Divergent Association Task (DAT), due to the fact that it measures divergent thinking, a constituent of creativity involving generating divers solutions to open-ended problems.

Traditionally, researchers person utilized 2 main approaches to measure creativity. One is to springiness idiosyncratic …