A Reappraisal of the Threshold Hypothesis of Creativity and Intelligence

Autor/inn/en	Weiss, Selina; Steger, Diana; Schroeders, Ulrich; Wilhelm, Oliver
Titel	A Reappraisal of the Threshold Hypothesis of Creativity and Intelligence
Quelle	In: Journal of Intelligence, 8 (2020), Artikel 38 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Weiss, Selina) ORCID (Schroeders, Ulrich) ORCID (Wilhelm, Oliver)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2079-3200
Schlagwörter	Intelligence; Creativity; Prediction; Correlation; Comparative Analysis; Structural Equation Models; Multivariate Analysis; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Intelligenz; Klugheit; Kreativität; Vorhersage; Korrelation; Multivariate Analyse; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	Intelligence has been declared as a necessary but not sufficient condition for creativity, which was subsequently (erroneously) translated into the so-called threshold hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts a change in the correlation between creativity and intelligence at around 1.33 standard deviations above the population mean. A closer inspection of previous inconclusive results suggests that the heterogeneity is mostly due to the use of suboptimal data analytical procedures. Herein, we applied and compared three methods that allowed us to handle intelligence as a continuous variable. In more detail, we examined the threshold of the creativity-intelligence relation with (a) scatterplots and heteroscedasticity analysis, (b) segmented regression analysis, and (c) local structural equation models in two multivariate studies (N[subscript 1] = 456; N[subscript 2] = 438). We found no evidence for the threshold hypothesis of creativity across different analytical procedures in both studies. Given the problematic history of the threshold hypothesis and its unequivocal rejection with appropriate multivariate methods, we recommend the total abandonment of the threshold. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01