6 Mar 2025

What can your vocabulary say about your creativity?

From Nights, 10:30 pm on 6 March 2025

This one is for the language lovers out there.

An experiment asking you to think of ten words that are as unrelated as possible can predict your verbal creativity.

People who tend to score highly on this task are more likely to pick up on patterns, solve analytical problems, and produce more novel metaphors.

Take the test here.

It was developed by Canadian behavioural scientist Dr. Jay Olson, who speaks to Emile Donovan.

Alphabet for kids concept. English letters in disorder on blue background top view.

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