Study: America’s creativity levels are falling

Here’s a good weekend read; print it out and take it to the beach. A Newsweek feature reports that Americans’ creativity levels are hitting the skids. “Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary [who discovered the trend this May] … found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward … It is the scores of younger children in America — from kindergarten through sixth …

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