This is a correlative study, so nothing can be concluded from it other than "voluntary cannabis use and psychotic symptoms have some direct or indirect covariant relationship".
Cannabis and Psychosis
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#13Why is it always cannabis and psychosis? How about a longitudinal study on cannabis and creativity?
I'm fairly sure there are such studies, but not longitudinal ones. I would say the reason is mostly to do with psychosis being a lot more rigidly defined than creativity, although there are obviously other biases. How exactly would you go about measuring how creative someone was, then seeing if that had changed 10 years later, in a way that would lead to a statistical conclusion worthy of publication? A very difficul…
There are "symptoms of psychosis" which can be measured but there are no indicators of creativity?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fairly sure there are such studies, but not longitudinal ones. I would say the reason is mostly to do with psychosis being a lot more rigidly defined than creativity, although there are obviously other biases. How exactly would you go about measuring how creative someone was, then seeing if that had changed 10 years later, in a way that would lead to a statistical conclusion worthy of publication? A very difficul…
There are "symptoms of psychosis" which can be measured but there are no indicators of creativity?
A lot more work has been put into working out psychosis than creativity because it's a higher priority to treat the psychotic than to study creativity. And more grant money available. It's just a matter demand basically.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are "symptoms of psychosis" which can be measured but there are no indicators of creativity?
A lot more work has been put into working out psychosis than creativity because it's a higher priority to treat the psychotic than to study creativity. And more grant money available. It's just a matter demand basically.
More grant money available, yes. But the reason for that is probably more political or cultural than intellectual or scientific. And a quick Googling shows there is plenty of research done by psychologists on creativity, too.