ABSTRACT
Yet, intelligence and creativity measures are used because they are good predictors of certain behaviors. Intelligence measures tend to be good predictors of school success, which makes sense when readers consider that the Binet tests, the mother of intelligence tests upon which many others are based and validated, were themselves based upon school activities. They were designed to predict school performance. Creativity is important in scientific discovery, invention, and the arts. Striking advances in human affairs such as in the creative arts, political and military leadership, and in scientific discovery and invention are mainly due to a few exceptionally creative gifted individuals. Creative children may be more vulnerable to such negative reactions to their ideas than adults are. Children have not completed their identity development, and they usually have not reached a point of creative productivity where their odd behaviors can be viewed as eccentricities rather than as problems.
