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Is There Really a Creativity Crisis? A Critical Review and Meta-analytic Re-Appraisal
Journal of Creative Behavior ( IF 3.233 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1002/jocb.483 Baptiste Barbot 1, 2 , Sameh Said‐Metwaly 1
Journal of Creative Behavior ( IF 3.233 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1002/jocb.483 Baptiste Barbot 1, 2 , Sameh Said‐Metwaly 1
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The idea of a “creativity crisis” is widely accepted in the creativity and education literature. Its popular interpretation as a decline in creativity across generations originates from Kim’s (2011) influential analysis of the re-norming data in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). The present work offers a critical review and reappraises the findings of Kim (2011), while incorporating new data from the latest norming edition of the TTCT. We posit that Kim’s (2011) claim of creativity decline was grounded on problematic empirical decisions, statistical approaches, data representation, and interpretation of findings. Based on a sample of over 330,000 participants across TTCT norming editions, we further present a set of cross-temporal meta-analyses to revisit generational trends. These analyses reveal no evidence for the notion of a generational decline of creativity, and even less so, for a “creativity crisis.” We conclude by discussing more broadly how beyond the lack of empirical evidence, the notion of creativity crisis represents a counter-productive societal and scientific myth. A few directions for the improvement of research and assessment practices in creativity are also discussed.
中文翻译:
真的存在创造力危机吗?批判性审查和元分析重新评估
“创造力危机”的概念在创造力和教育文献中被广泛接受。其流行的解释是跨代创造力下降源于 Kim (2011) 对托伦斯创造性思维测试 (TTCT) 中重新规范数据的有影响力的分析。目前的工作提供了批判性审查并重新评估了 Kim (2011) 的发现,同时结合了 TTCT 最新规范版本的新数据。我们假设 Kim (2011) 关于创造力下降的主张是基于有问题的经验决策、统计方法、数据表示和对发现的解释。基于 TTCT 规范版本中超过 330,000 名参与者的样本,我们进一步提出了一组跨时间元分析,以重新审视世代趋势。这些分析没有揭示创造力代际衰退的证据,更不用说“创造力危机”了。我们最后更广泛地讨论除了缺乏经验证据之外,创造力危机的概念如何代表一个适得其反的社会和科学神话。还讨论了改进创造力研究和评估实践的几个方向。
更新日期:2020-12-01
中文翻译:
真的存在创造力危机吗?批判性审查和元分析重新评估
“创造力危机”的概念在创造力和教育文献中被广泛接受。其流行的解释是跨代创造力下降源于 Kim (2011) 对托伦斯创造性思维测试 (TTCT) 中重新规范数据的有影响力的分析。目前的工作提供了批判性审查并重新评估了 Kim (2011) 的发现,同时结合了 TTCT 最新规范版本的新数据。我们假设 Kim (2011) 关于创造力下降的主张是基于有问题的经验决策、统计方法、数据表示和对发现的解释。基于 TTCT 规范版本中超过 330,000 名参与者的样本,我们进一步提出了一组跨时间元分析,以重新审视世代趋势。这些分析没有揭示创造力代际衰退的证据,更不用说“创造力危机”了。我们最后更广泛地讨论除了缺乏经验证据之外,创造力危机的概念如何代表一个适得其反的社会和科学神话。还讨论了改进创造力研究和评估实践的几个方向。