I got 96.14 with singularity, earwax, toilet, verbatim, popular, palladium, and stegosaurus. Though palladium maybe breaks the technical rule?
Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
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Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
#72I don't buy it. Seems to measure vocabulary + problem-solving-specific-to-this-question. I bet plenty of "uncreative" people could easily do well if you just told them to pick specific things from different topics(e.g. an obscure food, an obscure job, etc...), which is all I did and I scored in the top 1%. You don't have to be creative at all to do that. You only have to think of such a strategy, and then pick some o…
> chow mein That's two words.
>> chow mein
> That's two words.
No, it is a single open compound word. You can check this by consulting a dictionary, which will list 'chow mein' as "a noun".
Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
#73Two 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…
creativity I think is fundamentally synthesis. a large, varied, vocabulary of concepts is important for this, but I think more important is a high drive for novelty. such a drive probably leads to larger 'vocabularies.'
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#74This 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…
> uses for a brick unrelated, but how many can you come up with? I’m struggling after only 4 or so uses..
- in a wall
- as a paperweight
- to keep an elevator open
- as a murder weapon
- for weight training
- as a miniature grave stone
- for practicing long throws
- as a reminder (place it somewhere where you want to be reminded of something, like a knot in a handkerchief)
- as a step-stone to reach the upper shelf
- to keep a button pushed down
- to test how deep the chasm is (drop it in and hear it hit the bottom)
- to prop up whatever
- as a counterweight
- as a fraudulent shipment for something sold on Ebay
- as an anchor for a toy boat
- to train your karate chops
- for cracking nuts open
- as a slingshot (with a rope)
- as a pendulum (same)
- as a hammer (for nails, tenderizing meat, making crushed ice from ice cubes in a bag, …)
- as a digging or carving tool
- practicing to balance it on my finger
- raising the height of my monitor
- for blocking a mousehole
- for milling grains
- for opening a capped bottle
- as a bookend
…I could go on.
I now feel like bragging, but it seems like there’s almost no end to the possible uses.
Re: Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
#75This 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…
- You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> chow mein That's two words.
>> chow mein > That's two words. No, it is a single open compound word. You can check this by consulting a dictionary, which will list 'chow mein' as "a noun".
Just because it says "a noun" doesn't make it one word. That's like saying "brown pants" is one word. If you know Chinese you'd know it's two words, because mein means noodles and chow means fried (as opposed to lo, which means tossed).
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#77Assuming you don't misspell your words or use jargon, they only take the first 7 (rather than all 10), so put your best ones up front I guess (playing with it, apparently this cost me 5 points, haha).
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#78Did anyone else realize they probably take some sort of distance function on word embeddings then immediately get bored and leave?
To be honest, you probably already know if you're creative or not.
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#79I feel like this is testing my English skill rather than my creative skill. Maybe English native speaker might easy to beat no native speaker with low vocabulary skill?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 gree…
> The more nuance in a word, the more potential cognitive distance between it and another word. I don't see that. What is the cognitive distance between a more common color and a more obscure color? They're both colors. In your example, describing the color as olive instead of just green is certainly more specific, and maybe more accurate, but how is it more creative? If anything, it is less creative because it's mor…
If you're writing a story and trying to flesh out a character, someone who leases an olive drab Jeep is likely (a) someone who has money and (b) someone who likes to go off-roading, or at least give the appearance of being rough-and-tumble. Olive drab is also a color commonly associated with military usage, so that plays into it.
On the other hand, you could have a character who owns a lime Honda Insight. That is an old, unstylish hybrid, so that character is likely frugal, square, and perhaps more environmentally conscious.
And yet both characters could be said to have a green car. But the more detailed word choices can help give the story more life.