Measuring IQ is like measuring a car’s acceleration or top speed. It’s important and easy to measure but speed alone doesn’t tell you everything about a car. Besides IQ, creativity is also a very important mental ability, yet creativity is very hard to measure and to rate because we still rate most creativity subjectively. There are few concrete objective measurements for creativity, and there is no standardized creativity test we can give to people worldwide to measure creativity.
Creativity is where white Europeans make East Asians look like children.
Don’t believe me? Just look at the creative and technical output of European culture.
The Japanese are great craftspeople and the Chinese are great political administrators but only in Europe do you find creative geniuses like Newton, Darwin, Tesla, Mozart, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, etc. etc.. And from white Europeans and North Americans we get things like the scientific method, electricity, automobiles, flight, computers and most of the technology that we now rely on in modern societies.
Yes you can find incremental creativity in Japan and China and Korea but up to now most of the huge breakthroughs have been made in the west.
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