Steven Johnson, author of a new book called 'Everything Bad is Good For You' is persisting in pedalling his line that computer games and interactive media have contributed to increased IQ levels over the past few decades.
As I say in a previous post, just because IQ levels increased at the same time as the rise of interactive media, doesn't mean one thing caused the other. There are other perhaps more important trends over the past few decades, such as the improvement in diet.
I hate to criticise a book I haven't read and I hope that it contains better material than this. I suspect that the video games to IQ link is simply a nice angle for journalists to knock out a story.
The Guardian
How to Be Creative
If we can all be creative, why is it so hard to come up with truly original ideas?
It's because creativity is mysterious. Just ask any scientist, artist, writer or other highly creative person to explain how they come up with brilliant ideas and, if they're honest, they don't really know.
But over the decades psychologists have given ordinary participants countless tests, forms and tasks and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews. From these emerge the psychological conditions of creativity.
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