Monday, 17 February 2014

How does high intelligence evolve?

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* The simplest way is when (on average) only those of above-average intelligence are able to raise children to sexual maturity. * The...
Friday, 14 February 2014

Speculative implications of living in a world with a very rapid (? two IQ points per decade) decline in average intelligence

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/could-we-be-living-in-era-where-average.html *
Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Intelligence is a tertiary phenomenon

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* What is intelligence for? On the one hand higher intelligence helps in learning, it helps in analysis and understanding... stuff like ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014

The ageing population is a contribution to the decline of intelligence in developed nations

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* From considering some of the points in this post http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/why-is-decline-in-average-intellige...
Monday, 6 January 2014

Notes on Creativity as a sensitivity to external (ultimately divine) inspiration

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* [Note: the following is a non-scientific theory - in that it assumes the reality of gods and spirits and that humans can receive communi...
Saturday, 4 January 2014

Why is the decline in average intelligence not more obvious? Perhaps because it was masked by understimating the age-related decline in intelligence

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* It is possible that the dysgenic decline in average intelligence has been masked by underestimating the age-related decline in intellige...
Sunday, 10 November 2013

Speculations on possible (non scientific) reasons for the unreasonably visceral rejection of the idea of significant decline in intelligence over the past 100 plus years

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/cognitive-dissonance-in-intelligence.html *
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

The nature of genius: power, preeminence, from a person

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* In considering the nature of genius, it is not possible to define it in terms of a single variable - but requires several factors: the t...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Review of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England c.1860-1990 by Adrian Wooldridge

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/why-did-british-left-reject.html *
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Comparing mental age ratio with percentile measures of IQ - the intrinsic imprecision of high IQ measures in adults

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* I dislike the current method of expressing IQ rankings with an average of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (or 16): in fact I think it...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

How big is the IQ cognitive elite?

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* For Herrnstein and Murray publishing The Bell Curve in 1996, the cognitive elite comprised those of: IQ 125 and above, or 5% of the p...
Friday, 13 September 2013

The main problem of creativity is the disposition to recognize problems

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* I get the impression that most of the psychology of creativity has been too much focused on the problem of 'where do (good) ideas co...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

A Pygmalion theory of creativity: 'Love of the subject' is the perspective which enables creativity

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* I have previously argued that creativity is rare, and that it is typically inhibited (or more accurately that its per-requisites are lac...

The social perspective is what (usually) trumps and inhibits creativity

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* In the previous post http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/being-creative-is-not-seeking-novelty.html I created a 'T...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Being creative is not seeking novelty; but drawing a line around part of the world, and abstractly defining a problem

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* The tests designed to measure creativity by measuring the ability to generate novelty ('list as many uses as possible for a brick...
Friday, 30 August 2013

The unfortunate (but necessary) negativity of young genius

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* Because creativity is bound-up with character (specifically, the personality trait of high Psychoticism), it comes in a package. And som...
Monday, 19 August 2013

Shamans and creativity

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* About a decade ago I was reading everything I could find on the subject of shamans - scholarship, ethnography, memoirs and journals, lit...
Saturday, 17 August 2013

Thinking about thinking creatively

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* Creativity is about abstraction of function from the social situation - this is a necessary preliminary to being creative about somethi...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Genius, creativity and breakthrough innovations

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* It is necessary to be clear about the relationship between creativity and genius - and the relationship between genius and breakthroughs...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Is creativity random? An intrinsic ability? No: ultimately it is a matter of sensitivity to external inspiration

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* Most scientific accounts of creativity converge onto the idea that creativity is one half of a kind of natural selection process by whic...
Monday, 12 August 2013

In an evil society, most creativity will be evil: most creatives will be engaged in destruction of The Good

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* Although I argue for the importance of creativity in human affairs, and therefore of the importance of the creatives who do the primary...

Ordinary genius? Is it real genius? No - only the 'magicians' are real geniuses

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* No ordinary genius is the title of a photographic biography of Richard Feynman. The term comes from a quotation from Mark Kac which s...
Sunday, 11 August 2013

Fake creativity versus real creativity

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* In discussing creativity, a decision must be made as to whether we are going to give primacy to process or outcome. (Not neglecting th...

How to be more creative - gratuitous advice

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* Increasing the proportion of unstructured time alone is the key - as Glenn Gould once said: GOULD: I don't know what the effective ...
Thursday, 8 August 2013

The rarity of creativity

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* I believe creativity is rare, because creative people are rare - and by rare I mean a small minority, the size of which varies between ...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Why Concientiousness, Agreeableness/ Empathizing are anti-creative

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* The positive correlation between creativity and Eysenck's Psychoticism trait, also implies a positive correlation with the more spec...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Creative is not what you *do*, but who you *are*: the phenomenology of creativity

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* Creative people are made that way: it is personality. But why? What do creatives get out of being creative? What, on other words, is...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

The (annoying) arrogance of creativity

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* Creativity is a trait: a personality trait. Therefore, although its overall level and expression can be modulated by self-training and...
Monday, 29 July 2013

What of the Mute Inglorious Miltons? - unacknowledged creativity

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* Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway...