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

[Savonarola]

Saw this article on CNN and while I'm skeptical of the ability for an online test to measure creativity; it is still a fun puzzle:

Test here.

I got 92.25.

[grumbler]

Saw this article on CNN and while I'm skeptical of the ability for an online test to measure creativity; it is still a fun puzzle:

Test here.

I got 92.25.

I think that it is a trick-question sort of test.  Nouns are all different from one another, but none are more different.  The objects that they describe may be more or less different than another object being described by the noun, or the numbers and specifics of the letters making up the word may be different, but the words themselves aren't "more different." Which is "more different" from yarn:  barn, or thread?

[Barrister]

Interesting.  Surprisingly hard to think of words that are different from each other.

I got 84.85, which is higher that 84.75% of people who took the test.  Apparently.

[Habbaku]

91.02, but I don't care enough to dig into why the words I chose are truly different from one-another. 

Seems like a lot of randomness could go into this? I didn't try to think that hard on my choices.

[Barrister]

Saw this article on CNN and while I'm skeptical of the ability for an online test to measure creativity; it is still a fun puzzle:

Test here.

I got 92.25.

I think that it is a trick-question sort of test.  Nouns are all different from one another, but none are more different.  The objects that they describe may be more or less different than another object being described by the noun, or the numbers and specifics of the letters making up the word may be different, but the words themselves aren't "more different." Which is "more different" from yarn:  barn, or thread?

I don't know that it's a "trick" question.  They even link to an academic article explaining the test.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022340118

Whether this is testing anything meaningful is a different question.

[grumbler]

Saw this article on CNN and while I'm skeptical of the ability for an online test to measure creativity; it is still a fun puzzle:

Test here.

I got 92.25.

I think that it is a trick-question sort of test.  Nouns are all different from one another, but none are more different.  The objects that they describe may be more or less different than another object being described by the noun, or the numbers and specifics of the letters making up the word may be different, but the words themselves aren't "more different." Which is "more different" from yarn:  barn, or thread?

I don't know that it's a "trick" question.  They even link to an academic article explaining the test.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022340118

Whether this is testing anything meaningful is a different question.

I looked at the academic paper, and it's clear from their examples that they are referring to objects as unrelated as possible, not words that are as unrelated as possible.  Thus, English and Chinese words which both mean "dog" are very close in this test, even though the words are in completely different languages and writing systems and thus the words themselves very far apart.

[crazy canuck]

Apparently Feminism and War are very similar.  So that tanked my score.

[garbon]

My score changed just by changing order of the words I typed in given it only uses the first 7 words...

[Maladict]

Yeah, it's probably easier to just enter seven words. I managed 97.24 on my third attempt (doesn't count, I know )

[The Brain]

Does the test rate "love" and "hate" as very close or very far apart?

[alfred russel]

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

[The Brain]

Unlike the sheeple here I'm so creative that I didn't take the test. There's no box big enough that I cannot find the outside of it.

[Eddie Teach]

Afraid it will tell you that you're ordinary, eh?

[The Brain]

Afraid it will tell you that you're ordinary, eh?

I've never considered myself very creative. God created for us, and that is enough.

[The Brain]

OTOH I did win a limerick contest at uni.