The Creativity Crisis
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- drgz0
America is dead
- BoneCrusher0
Sorry, I just have to respond to ukit...
"A study of 300k kids" = "A few thinly sourced examples"
Calling a study of 300,000 scores a "thinly sourced example" is stupid.
"So late 80s, early 90s...that would be the same generation of kids that went on to create the dot com boom"
No, completely fucking wrong there. You think a 7 year old was responsible for the dot com boom?
- lets be clear. there was nothing booming about it.cannonball1978
- Miguex0
It’s too early to determine conclusively why U.S. creativity scores are declining. One likely culprit is the number of hours kids now spend in front of the TV and playing videogames rather than engaging in creative activities. Another is the lack of creativity development in our schools. In effect, it’s left to the luck of the draw who becomes creative: there’s no concerted effort to nurture the creativity of all children.
I can relate to this, I just gave up tv and videogames, I no longer own a tv or xbox, and in the last few days I started working on music again. Nothing too promising yet, but sometimes it was easier to sit down and watch tv or red dead redemption, just because it was there, now if I'm bored I start working on music or self initiated design projects, so far it feels good..
not sure for how long it will last though
- BoneCrusher0
"boring facts and negativity"
You are the typical art school loser. Too bad those "boring facts and negativity" reflect this thing called reality. You might have to face it someday when you've graduated with your useless degree and you're filling out a Starbucks application.
- kona0
i'd respond but i seriously can't think of anything witty or creative to say.
- bored2death0
Can someone show me a generation that didn't think the next generation was hopeless?
- randommail0
If you think about it, "American" education, creativity, test scores, etc. was never really an issue prior to the 1980s. Why? Because it's all relative. The bar has simply been raised with the steady influx of Asian immigrants since the early 1980s. (Korean, Japanese, Indian, etc.)
It's not rocket science.
- whatsup0
@ Bonecrusher- "reality?" are you serious?
What is presented is a twisted form of facts to state a false sense that creativity is on a downfall based on skewed information. You might not understand this because you probably believe everything you hear on TV and media without questioning it. Good luck as you join the ranks of the other mindless robots losers.
- Morning_star0
@ Whatsup
Could you enlighten us with your specific insight into the validity and interpretation of the facts? It seems that if it doesn't agree with your way of thinking it 'must' be wrong? Robots indeed.
- ukit0
The writer is actually the best example of their own thesis, with sentences like, "All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the Gulf of Mexico to bringing peace to Afghanistan to delivering health care" or "The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation." lol
So the story moves from mentioning the results of a single study of 300k kids in a nation of 300 million to a sweeping generalization about how America is no longer creative. This how most journalism like this goes, take a few thinly sourced examples and use them to make some Big Important Point.
So late 80s, early 90s...that would be the same generation of kids that went on to create the dot com boom, all of it pretty much based in America? Isn't it just as likely the test itself is flawed, or that there are other factors they aren't accounting for?
- JSK0
creativity is not declining. It is more to do with proliferation of creativity as a profession.
the notion of how creativity is defined, it is not declining but rather becoming less isolated. as more it becomes more open, much like any process, the value of such becomes diluted.
- ukit0
- copying leads to innovation. Look at Sony, samsung, LG, HTC,JSK
- this is consumer/economics issue not creativity. look at who's in the top schools and top tech jobs...the chineseDodecahedron
- I'm just wondering where the examples of Chinese inventions/ innovations are...ukit
- Look at HTC phones.JSK
- I did...and then I got an iPhoneukit
- which is also made by the chinese.JSK
- Dont forget about the printing press.JSK
- LOLukit
- the chinese/japanese are the ones propelling all the developments in the big tech companies. Google too.Dodecahedron
- they get the jobsDodecahedron
- Like what? Work being done there doesn't = creativityukit
- just because apple is based in USA doesn't mean a thing. steve jobs ain't doing this by himselfDodecahedron
- FOR GOD SAKES IT STAYSJSK
- IT DOESN'T FUCKIN STAYukit
- There are no americans anyway, america is a pirate wharf of random immigrantsdrgz
- utopian0
America needs more of the following: blogs, web templates, clip art, stock photography, and iPhones to make a creative rebound!
- lukus_W0
Creativity prospers when limitations are put in place.
- ukit0
Sorry guys I don't buy it...it's a story based on nothing. And of course hit the low hanging fruit (TV and video games) as the source of blame.
If only we were free from modern life we'd be so much more creative. Gimme a break. Ever watch TV from the 50s/ 60s like Nick at Nite or something? People were idiots back then:)
- identity0
@drgz
Did America not hug you enough when you were a child?
- JSK0
Well at least we have ukit here.
But he is half chinese.
I dont trust him.
- ukit0
That gives me even more credibility
- JSK0
Reverse psychology.
Tricky chinese them are.
- JSK0