The Creativity Crisis
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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?