I think the idea is, actually, valid. But I don't think the measurement is. I think this plagues all creativity measures: you're asking the subject to be very open in their thinking, but the evaluation method must be narrow and objective.
Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
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#102Your score is 97.52, higher than 99.83% ———————- paternity chocolate snowblower troglodytes sediment dictionary ricochet ———————— This could be a fun wordle type game that one could play everyday.
You might enjoy Semantle: https://semantle.novalis.org/
Or better yet, Pimantle: https://semantle.pimanrul.es/
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#103This isn't really a creativity test. I'd love to see their baseline and how they show this stacking up against other creativity tests. I've taken real creativity tests before (the ones that movie studios give for entrance to their internship programs). They are hard to grade but I think far more accurate. They have questions like: - Name as many uses for a brick as possible in 10 minutes. - You've been told that a sc…
I don't know if those are better. They sound like the same superstitous interviewing techniques that led Google to ask engineers to estimate the number of ping pong balls that would fill up a Boeing 747.
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#104Two observations: 1) people who seem to have gotten the highest scores are not following directions properly (e.g. someone on Twitter who got >98 used decidedly technical terms like "codec", despite clear instructions not to use technical jargon) 2) this seems to measure how extensive your vocabulary is (e.g. obscure noncommon words seem to score much higher than common words, even though the common words may be quit…
With 2) I got 91.28 with happiness, basement, electron, cricket, morphine, artichoke, philosophy. Nothing notably advanced here. (My last 3, which weren't included were: pop [like soda pop], disecretion, moon).
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm aware of what an open compound is, and I still say chow mein isn't one of them. Show me a dictionary that actually refers to it as such. Furthermore since it's a borrow word, usually the "compoundness" comes with the borrow, and it's most definitely two words in Cantonese. > the site explicitly tells you to select "nouns" It says to select 10 nouns. It says "Only single words in English". It also doesn't allow "L…
> Show me a dictionary that actually refers to it as such. Here you go: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chow-mein Note how it is listed as "noun", not nouns. Just like living room: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/living-room Note that there is no entry for "brown pants". Do you understand why both living room and chow mein are listed, but brown pants isn't? > and it's most definitely two words in English. No, it…
Your condescension is not necessary, nor is it correct. But I don't feel like continuing to debate someone who is so rude.
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#106Having taken the test and scoring an average 73 or so and then looking at the Twitter high rankings this is definitely rigged against simple terms. Yet the criteria “No specialised vocabulary (e.g., no technical terms)” should rule out a lot of words. Words like moon and elephant will get you an average score but using those words are following the criteria closely. Is it really an accurate test when you can look at…
There's nothing seeing with using words like moon and elephant, it's a relative measure between words, not absolute.
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#107I highly disagree with their definition of different from each other. Usage together does not make the words similar. If they'd said something about words you would not find together in a sentence then I'm certain you'd get very different results.
Yes, agreed. I used the word hose, thinking garden hose, and vacuum, thinking of absence of matter. That specific pairing came to 47. I now see why based on the explanation of the test. However, even if I had meant vacuum like the cleaning tool, I would not associate it with hose naturally because I use a stick vacuum.
A garden hose and vacuum are still very close semantically though, at least in the entire domain of nouns. They're both household objects.
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#108Two observations: 1) people who seem to have gotten the highest scores are not following directions properly (e.g. someone on Twitter who got >98 used decidedly technical terms like "codec", despite clear instructions not to use technical jargon) 2) this seems to measure how extensive your vocabulary is (e.g. obscure noncommon words seem to score much higher than common words, even though the common words may be quit…
I noticed as you go down the list that thinking about divergent terms gets harder because of the suggestive power of the previous items. I suspect it's measure the ability to "think outside the box", or the ability to ignore constraints to find solutions. Interesting, but as it says it's a limited definition of creativity.
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#109I think naming this "Creativity Test" instead of "Max Word Distance Test" had gotten everyone in here really defensive about their scores.
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#110This isn't really a creativity test. I'd love to see their baseline and how they show this stacking up against other creativity tests. I've taken real creativity tests before (the ones that movie studios give for entrance to their internship programs). They are hard to grade but I think far more accurate. They have questions like: - Name as many uses for a brick as possible in 10 minutes. - You've been told that a sc…
I don't know if those are better. They sound like the same superstitous interviewing techniques that led Google to ask engineers to estimate the number of ping pong balls that would fill up a Boeing 747.
I think that's actually a pretty good question. It shows how someone tries to tackle a very nebulous problem with no clear answer.
And keep in mind that these questions were for internships in making TV and film, where exactly this kind of creativity is necessary.