I know how MNers love to take tests, so

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I have just found the divergence association task, which purports to measure creativity. My score was 90 point something 🙂
www.datcreativity.com/task

Hope the link works!

89.82, with highest marks for Car x Cogitation

83.98

I enjoyed that! I got 91.35.

My top one was turquoise-apoplexy at 106, followed mandolin-encephalitis at 104.

105 for osteopathy/arc

I think it’s going to favour people with good vocabularies, to be fair.

83.71. Very high score when pebble was followed by cowpat!

I couldn't even be bothered to think of the first word

Love this! I scored 93.27. But I so have adhd so random things popping in my head is completely normal for me...

@DedalusBloom

105 for osteopathy/arc

I think it’s going to favour people with good vocabularies, to be fair.

I am interested that so many people posted such complicated words.

I didn't. I took it to mean that the words have to be from as wide a context as possible. So I thought of a variety of contexts and tried to find typical words So mine were

chapapti
book
daisy
bridle
cog
knife

it scored 86. Chapati an book scored 104

93.24

Hmm, not sure how reliable the software is, I used urdu word with standard alphabet characters and scored 78.47.

93.88

Annoying my 3 most obscure words were ones that weren't recognised (it was initially 4 but I changed one).

90.58

I'm not sure it really measures creativity, rather, a good vocabulary.

85.73 only 7 were valid

I got 70%. Apparently dogs and cats aren’t used in the same sentence very often.

I suppose where it's measuring creativity is that your mind can go from one thing to another without being stuck in a rut. So if you went dog-cat-fish-rabbit-hamster-gerbil, it suggests you can only think about one subject, but if you went dog-filbert-encephalopaphy-skirt-computer-aphid, then it assumes your mind can go all over the place. This assumes that creativity comes through finding links in seemingly unconnected things and doing something new as a result.

I haven't actually read the papers linked at the bottom of the quiz, though, so I could be talking utter codswallop.

It does favour first-language speakers and those with a large vocab (who don't worry about whether words count as too technical.)

hmmm... I dunno if I trust the scoring system. I tried combo that seemed like they should closely go together -- still got score > 50%tile??

oh no, I'm an idiot, lol, can't read. That was a 1%tile result.

Ok I’ve resubmitted. Apparently it’s 95% likely that pyjamas and boating will be in the same sentence - giving me 80% score but only 17% change of cats and dogs being in the same sentence.
Which is odd.

88.41. Only did it once and quite quickly at that. Apparently higher than 94.1% of people who did the test, so I'm happy with that, despite the very high scores from people here on MN!

@Ebearhug

I only ever do tests if I know I'll have a good result.
I know I'm creative, I've always been told that my associations were incredibly unusual.
I often say "oh, that reminds me of..." and people are flummoxed because nothing I say is remotely in connection with the previous story🤣

And although English is my second language I have a fairly large vocabulary so that helped!

I'd love to know how the scoring is worked out. and what combos would give 200!

@Bargebill19

Ok I’ve resubmitted. Apparently it’s 95% likely that pyjamas and boating will be in the same sentence - giving me 80% score but only 17% change of cats and dogs being in the same sentence. Which is odd.

Are you sure you haven't misunderstood? The more similar they are, the lower the percentage

I was bang on average but I didn’t use big words. I tried to think of different contexts. I could use plenty of uncommon nouns if that would get me a bigger score?

77.85

With 105 between oven and nihilism

Tried it again using uncommon words and I got a much better score, but surely that’s testing my vocabulary rather than my creativity.

96.12. I've had a really bad day and that's cheered me up.