In the name of testing creativity researchers can go to any extent. Consider this example I picked it from the book :59 Seconds
Can you add a single line to the following equation to make it correct? ('not equal to' is not a solution):
l0 l0 ll = l0.50
Spend some time here. Then uncover the answer hidden in the gray box below (click and drag):
Place a horizontal line over the second 'l' to get
l0 TO ll = l0.50
(It is time: Ten to Eleven = Ten-Fifty)
Now if you are a normal person, then chances are that you could not solve it. Unless someone has a funny sort of creative mind, this cannot be solve. Why? No one writes Ten-Fifty as 10.50. The convention is to write it as 10:50, right?
What is the purpose of such exercises? Does it really test your creativity? Or perhaps, researchers derive some sadistic pleasure by deliberately misleading.
Hello, how can you use the rational mind to evaluate creativity. Creativity is not about following rules, norms and conventional practices. I dont know if this test is an accurate measure of creativity and I am not qualified to debate on that. But I do know that creative people are twisted in their heads. They do NOT think like normal people and that's what makes them creative. I would think that is what, people call 'Creative licence'
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