trait that creative geniuses often share

[milo]

OK milo, I concede, but as I said earlier, if any research involves self reporting as this does, it's outcome is already skewed. Not only that, but the mention of grades for determining anything, positive or negative is ludicrous, as grades do not reflect on the student so much as they do upon the institution or the teacher. The fallacy of self reporting can be seen in one example. People were asked to rate themselves as to their overall honesty, as compared to their peers. 99% plus rated themselves in the upper 50% of honesty when 0 was least honest and 100 was most honest. I think you can see the problem.  
It's sad, I thought we were beyond this sort of voodoo practice.

Dale

In many cases a questionnaire really is the only way to do research and there can be adjustments made to the math and to the questionnaire to account for such things but in this case, even if the participants are 100% honest, the results still aren't very good.  in addition, the entire study downplays the regression analysis of the actual recognized creativity test because it doesn't produce the results that go along with their thesis.  The reporter then took only the one side and reported it as pretty much a fact.  Pretty sloppy case over all.