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Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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My score is better than average, but looking at the highest scoring sets they seem to not follow the rules, because they use specialised terms like "trichrome" or "pustule".

I'm not a native English speaker, but I don't suppose the mentioned words are used in normal conversation.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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I kind of wish they had asked whether respondents had come across semantic similarity, or had previous experience with linguistics, NLP, or sentiment analysis. I don’t think I’m particularly creative but guessing at how it must have been implemented under the covers I have to believe contributed bunch to the score I received. It’d be interesting to have seen how much of one’s score can be explained by those past experiences.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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It seems the way this works is that you get a higher score if the 2-gram frequencies for all pairs in your set are low. But this can easily be gamed just by choosing very specific words, since they will naturally occur rarely with other niche words, regardless of whether or not their meanings are "related" in any sense.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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It seems the way this works is that you get a higher score if the 2-gram frequencies for all pairs in your set are low. But this can easily be gamed just by choosing very specific words, since they will naturally occur rarely with other niche words, regardless of whether or not their meanings are "related" in any sense.

Ok, do it and report back. Remember, you need to think of the words yourself.
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