I was curious, so I peeked.
People have been taking the Creative Achievement Questionnaire Quiz. 97, so far. That’s good enough for some results, right?
I didn’t include the original category names, courtesy of Jordan Peterson, because they are cringey.
Are you surprised? I’m not.
The Creative Achievement Questionnaire is set up to get results like this. Lots of people in the “new” category. Very few people in the “genius” categories.
Let’s not talk about the fact that this questionnaire is based solely on other people’s approval of your creativity—which by definition excludes the most innovative and original thinkers.
What strikes me—and I’m no statistician—is that this graph looks like half of a squished-down bell curve.
What would be on the other side—anti-creativity? Whining? Plans with no action?
Maybe that’s where they stick the people who are so innovative that they look insane.
Anyway, I’m still not happy with JP’s questionnaire but I haven’t come up with anything better yet.
How would you measure creativity?
2019-01-31 at 6:35 am
The quiz had its limits, too. As in, I’ve poured my efforts into writing and could have checked off all but one of those, but it only allows you to check one. Also, some, like the dance go from zero to being in a dance troupe, completely leaving out years of dance classes. Music leaves out vocals; I’ve had a lot of vocal training but only dabbled in instruments. Unless voice is considered an instrument. And, yeah, human approval is never for the most creative. It’s for the most accessible.
2019-01-31 at 11:43 pm
Those are valid points—especially about vocal training. The more I think about it, the more the quiz seems sloppy and out of touch.