Re:Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest [pdf] (2011)
by thaumasiotes on Sunday February 08, 2015 @11:26PM
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That's a bias, but it's not sufficient to guarantee that the highest "creativity" scores show a lower prevalence of self-reported honesty than the lower scores. It could easily be the other way around.
If I measured creativity in a group of test subjects using the Gough Creativity Scale and found that, e.g., the people in the top 10% of measured creativity were Honest at double the rate of the bottom 90%, would that finding be invalid because of the design of the Gough Creativity Scale?
The Gough Creativity Scale asks people to check the adjectives that apply to them.
If you check "Honest" that is -1 for your creativity rating.
These results are built into the pre-assumptions of the self-assessment metric the study used for a creative rating.
Therefore the study uses circular reasoning and is invalid.