Sure creatives are important...GloryofGreece wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:08 pmI don't know if they are correlated and I am not arguing with the validity of the paper/article etc. you link. I do think that is a problem with intelligence being defined the way it typically is. I made the case why creativity is important (should be obvious) but i gave some specifics uses of it . Clearly even if you associate IQ with wealth and financial success you also can and should associate creativity with the advancement of civilization, business, economics, and just about every field.
But Western culture wasn't really differentiated by having more creative individuals... it was differentiated by applying that creativity and advancing technologically and industrially. Often the west borrowed the ideas of other societies and then applied them more effectively...