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MANY people who gain high scores on conventional IQ tests are less successful on open ended tests that require mental fluency and imaginativeness1–4. Such individuals have been called convergers, and those with the opposite bias, divergers3; convergers are more likely to specialize in the physical sciences, divergers in the arts3,5. Open ended tests are themselves widely assumed to measure creativity, but the association with arts or science specialization suggests that this is an oversimplification.
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AUSTIN, M. Dream Recall and the Bias of Intellectual Ability. Nature 231, 59–60 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231059a0
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