This simple word test reveals how creative you are, scientists say

[Jacob]

"Crowdsourcing this simple word test will help us with our research project," scientists say.

[Tonitrus]

73, so I'm the least creative person here.

I was down in the 60's. 

Creativity is overrated anyways. 

[Agelastus]

73, so I'm the least creative person here.

I was down in the 60's. 

Creativity is overrated anyways. 

77.3 which is apparently better than 45.83% of the people who completed the task and near to the middle of the majority of scores for people taking the test.

Middlingly creative, apparently - which is not something I've ever noticed about myself (I've always considered myself to have poor creativity.)

[DGuller]

I don't see any issues with the test.  To me it seems closely related to the data science concept of principal components, or more generally autoencoders, which can be very useful in some applications.  I was thinking of the test as finding 10 words that collectively could cover as many things or concepts as is possible to cover with just 10 words.  An English word for a dog and a Chinese word for a dog both still leave you only able to communicate about dogs.  If your second word was a satellite, then at least you can discuss both dogs and space, which are generally pretty orthogonal concepts (except in 1957).

[PDH]

It said 9/10 of mine were misspelled, just because they were bones, anthropological terms, or paleolithic fish.

[Josquius]

89.62 apparently.
Yeah I don't get it.
Though I learned nouns can mean concepts.
Odd that randomness means creativity.

Maybe the true test is is rather more abstract. Looking at how people read into these scores. How liable different demographics are to complain when told they have zero creativity.

[DGuller]

Creativity is useful lack of predictability, not just any lack of predictability.  Perfect noise is unpredictable, but it's also useless.  Creative concepts give something new which can't be inferred from what is currently known, and they also help you achieve something which you couldn't achieve with your prior level of knowledge.

[Berkut]

73, crushed it

[Admiral Yi]

93.85

[Admiral Yi]

My lowest pair, at 65, were "poker" and "encyclopedia," which I found kind of odd.

[Solmyr]

I got 86.24. Closest word pair was "filibuster" and "monstrosity", at 74.

[Josquius]

Creativity is useful lack of predictability, not just any lack of predictability.  Perfect noise is unpredictable, but it's also useless.  Creative concepts give something new which can't be inferred from what is currently known, and they also help you achieve something which you couldn't achieve with your prior level of knowledge.

Yeah, surely a better link would be the chain in the words having something to do with each other?
Is someone creative because they randomly jump from talking about beetles to political philosophies, or because they can think of effective and novel ways to describe those beetles?

[Savonarola]

Yeah, surely a better link would be the chain in the words having something to do with each other?
Is someone creative because they randomly jump from talking about beetles to political philosophies, or because they can think of effective and novel ways to describe those beetles?

The linked article covers that topic.  This test measures divergent thinking, what you're describing is convergent thinking which has a different type of test (the Bridge-the-Associative-Gap Task according to the article.)

[celedhring]

84,95

"Grass" and "bottle" was my lowest score component with 66%. Apparently this test doesn't approve of littering.

[mongers]

10.703