Creativity Conundrum
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Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution had a good post at Marginal Review last week on the conundrums of creativity:

Is Creativity more like IQ or Expertise? 




That's interesting that the Torrance Tests have such a low g factor for creative thinking. 

None of this is to say that there isn't such a thing as creativity or that it can't be measured, but that it's hard. And that means that when people say that IQ is overrated, that creativity is what counts, they are both right in one sense, but it's not as useful a sense as they think it is. It's not that hard to make predictions based on IQ, but it's harder to make predictions based on creativity. 

With creativity, for instance, a lot of things keep happening until they stop. The residents of Florence, for example, were the most creative people on Earth, until, after a while, they weren't. This lack of predictive power makes creativity fascinating but frustrating.

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