Shin (1971) collected data on intelligence using six creativity measures and six achievement measures for 116 subjects in the eleventh grade in suburban Pittsburgh. The Otis Quick Scoring Mental Ability Test, Guilford's Divergent Productivity Battery, and Kropp and Stoker's Lisbon Earthquake Achievement Test were used to gather one IQ score, six creativity measures, and six achievement measures for each subject. In addition to the IQ variable (1), the variables included in the creativity test were ideational fluency (2), spontaneous flexibility (3), associational fluency (4), expressional fluency (5), originality (6), and elaboration (7). The achievement measures were knowledged (8), comprehensive (9), application (10), analysis (11), synthesis (12), and evaluation 13). The correlation matrix for the study is presented in the table below.
Inspection of the table indicates that four out of the six creativity measures (tests 4, 5, 6, and 7) are highly correlated with synthesis and evaluation (tests 12 and 13), as is IQ (test 1). What else do you notice?
The data has been entered (in the form needed to create a _type_='CORR' dataset) in the file creative.dat on Pavlov in the directory k:\home\sasuser\psy6140\data.
CORR IQ 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . CORR IFLUENCY .16 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . CORR FLEXIB .32 .71 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . CORR AFLUENCY .24 .12 .12 1.0 . . . . . . . . . CORR EFLUENCY .43 .34 .45 .43 1.0 . . . . . . . . CORR ORIGINAL .30 .27 .33 .24 .33 1.0 . . . . . . . CORR ELABORAT .43 .21 .11 .42 .46 .32 1.0 . . . . . . CORR KNOWLEDG .67 .13 .27 .21 .39 .27 .38 1.0 . . . . . CORR COMPREHE .67 .18 .24 .15 .36 .33 .26 .62 1.0 . . . . CORR APPLICAT .57 .08 .14 .09 .25 .13 .23 .44 .66 1.0 . . . CORR ANALYSIS .59 .10 .16 .09 .25 .12 .28 .58 .66 .64 1.0 . . CORR SYNTHESI .45 .13 .23 .42 .50 .41 .47 .46 .47 .37 .53 1.0 . CORR EVALUATI .24 .08 .15 .36 .28 .21 .26 .30 .24 .19 .29 .58 1.0 N 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 116
© 1995 Michael Friendly
Author: Michael Friendly