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If creative people are more dishonest, then is it okay to let dishonest people go if we know that they're sometimes dishonest?
http://io9.com/5904759/are-creative-people-naturally-more-dishonest
Especially given that it's sometimes necessary to be dishonest if one is a creative thinker? (people are often suspicious of creative ideas, and you may have to lie your way through so that they won't give you too much of a hard time)
Especially given that it's sometimes necessary to be dishonest if one is a creative thinker? (people are often suspicious of creative ideas, and you may have to lie your way through so that they won't give you too much of a hard time)
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Research like the one used in the Scientific American source article which uses a word association type game, reminds me of when I had to research whether video games caused children to be violent. When scientific research cites experiments that deal with micro-tasks, one has to be weary at the credibility of the experiments, in the same way that kids being violent to a Bobo doll, after seeing a video of an adult being violent to one, in comparisation to a group kids who never saw the video, doesn't necessarily mean that violent video games causes violence.
One has to learn critical thinking skills when being confronted with "research" on the internet, as not all researches are fair to backup research with. The dice experiment, I'm not even going to attempt to invalidate that. It is important to remember that scientific articles or journals about psychology, can give the wrong correlations. Lying about a dice doesn't have to be adamantly due to the amount of creativity one has. Maybe it's because creative people have more experience playing games perhaps, and that's why they're more creative.
The part of the research which has credibility to it, is that creative people can come up with justifications as excuses for the immoral actions. This is called rationalising. Some people do it to justify their ill actions, so that they don't feel guilt.
This is the part of the article that is interesting, but it only lasts for one paragraph. More research is needed on that, to find case scenarios, better experiments, and to distinguish what makes creative people different, so that they see things that others don't.
I wouldn't take much information from the article, and I would just read it as a kind of pre-article that needs further research so its claims can be actually proven or disproved. The i09 article encourages people to be weary of people with creative ideas. I find that this shouldn't happen, as most creative ideas aren't about deception.
For further information on deciphering whether to trust everything you read on the internet, read this article.
Of Course It's True; I Saw It On The Internet
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55962191/Of-Course-Its-True-Read-It-on-the-Internet