Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014)

Re:Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014) by Tomte on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:24PM (#17912021)

I can't seem to access the paper, but this part sounds fishy:

Then the participants walked on the treadmill, at an easy, self-selected pace that felt comfortable. The treadmill faced a blank wall. While walking, each student repeated the creativity tests, which required about eight minutes.

So, they re-did the tests they did shortly before and came up with more solutions?

That cannot be it. I hope this is sloppy reporting and the paper tells a different story. A story of a control group. Of some people walking first and sitting later and vice versa. And so on.

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Re:Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014) by torresmo on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:03PM (#17912328)

Good point. I found the paper on google https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf.

It seems they took your point into consideration. Check Experiment 2 section.

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Re:Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014) by hexane360 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:28PM (#17912048)

Reminds me of the pseudoscience of "applied kinesiology". Basically the trick is they do flexibility tests before and after "treatment", and patients magically get better at them the second time around.

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