A Reappraisal of the Threshold Hypothesis of Creativity and Intelligence.

ABSTRACT: Intelligence has been declared as a necessary but not sufficient condition for creativity, which was subsequently (erroneously) translated into the so-called threshold hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts a change in the correlation between creativity and intelligence at around 1.33 standard deviations above the population mean. A closer inspection of previous inconclusive results suggests that the heterogeneity is mostly due to the use of suboptimal data analytical procedures. Herein, we applied and compared three methods that allowed us to handle intelligence as a continuous variable. In more detail, we examined the threshold of the creativity-intelligence relation with (a) scatterplots and heteroscedasticity analysis, (b) segmented regression analysis, and (c) local structural equation

SUBMITTER: Weiss S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7709632 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature