Finally, an interactive version of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire!
The actual questionnaire was developed by Jordan B Peterson and Shelly Carson. This version is just for fun.
To take the quiz, pick the level that best represent your achievement in that area. If you’re not logged in with a WordPress account, enter your email for the results to be sent to you.
2019-08-26 at 9:12 am
Thank you for putting this questionnaire out there. Reality is sobering.
2019-10-10 at 2:21 pm
These questions are bullet points, and Peterson’s questionnaire allows for iterations for how many times you’ve sold/composed/won awards etc so this one is inaccurate
2019-11-11 at 3:06 pm
No man with self respect will take up dancing. Therefore it cannot be used as a measure of creativity.
In general the fields are too narrow. Many of my creative outlets are not covered. Woodworking, fabrication, graphic design etc.
Some people spend time thinking about where they are going to go, who they are going to be with, what they are going to have or what they are going to do but a creative person is always thinking about ideas. That is the best measure of creativity.
2019-12-11 at 9:16 pm
For your consideration: I’m pretty sure Baryshnikov has always felt self respect for being a dancer. In Russia men who excel in ballet are respected as masculine athletes. In many countries and cultures dancing is passed from generation to generation. Dancing at traditional gatherings and for recreation is still part of most cultures around the world. Men are revered for being skilled dancers and are considered masculine and attractive. In many cases of skilled Male dancers opportunities to compete, train, teach, perform, own training businesses, etc. lead to successful careers and recognition. Men can be highly creative and athletic as dancers through a myriad of different styles of dance.
2020-04-14 at 6:03 am
are you jealous of men that can dance, michael?
2019-11-18 at 11:08 pm
But why, why would one go “to market” (to judges/ to win prizes etc.) with her piece of creative product…??? For I understand now (and this was also my intuition about “how things work” for a very long time) that she would profit only 8% of the total (in case of book publishing) and also very little in case of song writing/ producing/ singing (maybe acting? ) – data for jokes, recipes and inventions not included. 🙂
Also, bear in mind that, in some countries, judgement and prizes are rather politically controlled…
Finally, I would like to point that one should not self express in order to get a prize. I think that would be dangerous, for the individual.
2020-01-28 at 6:02 pm
Well. No talent on the logical side and basically no talent on this side. F me. Janitor work here I come.
2020-01-31 at 7:53 pm
Talent alone won’t score you anything on this quiz. All good things come from doing the work.
If you haven’t done anything yet…go try something!
2020-01-31 at 8:41 pm
Is this a joke — or a way to get people’s email list? I am working on a program I’m presenting about creativity, so I assumed the questions would be more creatively structured. In order to get a high score in “creative achievement,” you need to be an artist, a writer, a dancer, a musician, an architect, a paid comedian AND a designer, then become recognized in ALL of those fields by awards, acclaim, or in publications. Yet the world is filled with many creative people who live, work and play creatively, but not within these narrow (yet most obvious) categories. Some people invent, construct, or design things, but don’t have any desire for competition. Oftentimes, creatives have no interest in entering contests and/or no skill at marketing themselves anyway. I hope no one takes this quiz as a measure of how creative they are!! You may be the most creative person on the planet, but aren’t formally recognized.
2020-02-20 at 9:20 am
It says creative achievement questionnaire, not creativity questionnaire. It’s hardly the perfect questionnaire but these are, for the most part, the metrics by which our society measures achievement in creative arts.
2020-08-18 at 5:13 pm
You’ve got the quiz scoring wrong.
The original paper (the one that invented the quiz) gets the answerer to multiply their score in the “recognized in a national publication” question for each time they’ve been recognized.
For example, in your quiz, if I’ve been recognized as a visual artist nationally 4 times, I get 7 points. In the quiz in the original paper, I would have gotten 28 points (7 * 4).
With your quiz, a lot of highly successful creatives will get low scores. The original paper would have given them high scores.
The original paper — https://www.academia.edu/20722144/Reliability_Validity_and_Factor_Structure_of_the_Creative_Achievement_Questionnaire?auto=download