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Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by Ansil849 »

Lerc wrote: post #31
jhardy54 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Done. Moved my score from the 54th percentile to 98th percentile. My words: Cannabinol, idempotence, median, mitosis, infrared, soufflé, synonym, genomics, tortoiseshell, crankshaft.

I managed 76.4% with the super unrelated words flag, buttress, tower, stables, kitchen, dungeon, portcullis, throne, keep, castle [edit] tweaked it a bit to make the score higher after I realized the form always drops the 10th word :-)

> super unrelated words

Did you mean to say that these were all super related, not unrelated, words?

Crenel, buttress, hearth, stables, dungeon, gargoyle, throne, flag are all words relating to castles - some like crenel, explicitly so.

Edit: and in your updated wordlist, you just swapped one castle-specific term, 'crenel', for another, 'portcullis'...

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by yuuu »

jollybean wrote: post #35
S_A_P wrote: post #34

I sorta guessed that the algorithm was words that had nothing to do with each other so I guess the 85.53 percent I got was probably more confirmation of a guess than anything.

? That's not guessing the algorithm, those were the instructions. "Please enter 10 words that are as different from each other as possible, in all meanings and uses of the words."

This guy is so smart he followed the instructions without knowing them!

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by Lerc »

Ansil849 wrote: post #41
Lerc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I managed 76.4% with the super unrelated words flag, buttress, tower, stables, kitchen, dungeon, portcullis, throne, keep, castle [edit] tweaked it a bit to make the score higher after I realized the form always drops the 10th word :-)

> super unrelated words Did you mean to say that these were all super related, not unrelated, words? Crenel, buttress, hearth, stables, dungeon, gargoyle, throne, flag are all words relating to castles - some like crenel, explicitly so. Edit: and in your updated wordlist, you just swapped one castle-specific term, 'crenel', for another, 'portcullis'...

perhaps the /s was needed. I swapped out crenel for portcullis because I figured more people would know what it is (crenel was an eliminated word) Also moved flag to the front because I noticed it was always eliminated and added castle to the end because the 10th word was always eliminated and it's funny to have castle eliminated from a list of parts of a castle.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by saghm »

Ansil849 wrote: post #30
eyelidlessness wrote: post #26

I literally just reacted to my surrounding environment, because I’m sound sensitive and I was curious what would happen if I just used what I pick up from my environment. Maybe creative? I was just wondering how the thing works. 90-something% and I didn’t bother to keep a reference. I was actively regurgitating other thoughts expressed around me, but with no intention other than understanding what’s being measured. A…

The rules explicitly say: > Think of the words on your own (e.g., do not just look at objects in your surroundings). I guess technically they don't say to not listen, just to not look.

Is it creative to think of a loophole to those rules, or is it a lack of creativity to assume that the rules are intended exactly as written?

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by Guthur »

throw7 wrote: post #44

Seems like a lot of people aren't following the rules. This test seems to me a good way of illustrating how a diversive group of people can be more creative.

Aren't we all different, pretty sure none of us are carbon copies of each other. And so a more correct non political statement would be collaboration can breed creativity.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

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Post by Fwirt »

Ansil849 wrote: post #24

Two 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…

One justification for this might be that the greater the number of words in your vocabulary, the more "colors" with which you can paint your linguistic constructs. More complex words can have a subtlety of meaning that distinguishes them from one another, so you can "pack" your sentences with more meaning. The more nuance in a word, the more potential cognitive distance between it and another word.

  E.g.
  He had a green car.
  versus
  He leased an olive drab Jeep.
Surely a distinguished artist could produce a masterpiece with three crayons, but most would not choose to.

Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

#49

Post by LudwigNagasena »

pfundstein wrote: post #11
ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #8

It's interesting to know the possible difference for native and non-native English speakers for this test. I got "higher than 94.3%" and wonder if being non-native puts me at an advantage for the task.

I can't imagine it would. I'm fluent in 4 languages and with each language I learnt the most common phrases and words first.

I think it’s easier because while you indeed learn the most common words first, the learning gap between common and non-common words is much lower and the associations in the brain are less developed.

For reference, I got 92.8 and English is my second language.

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