Scientific creativity research based on generalizability theory and BP_Adaboost RT

Creativity and psychosis in scientific research.

Generalizability Theory: Overview

36 Generalizability Theory

Generalizability (G) theory is a statistical theory for evaluating the dependability (or reliability) of behavioral measurements (Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda, & Rajaratnam, 1972; see also Brennan, 2001; Shavelson & Webb, 1991). G theory permits the researcher to address such questions as: Is the sampling of tasks or judges the major source of measurement error? Can I improve the reliability of the ...

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Creativity

There has been much recent success for AI systems undertaking creative tasks in scientific domains such as astronomy, biology, medicine, chemistry, physics and mathematics. In many scientific domains, we can build on the wealth of philosophical and computational studies into creative aspects of human intelligence, and use the abstract nature of the data to derive specialist algorithms for disco...

Music, Creativity and Scientific Thinking

Imagine that you are attending an orchestral concert. You listen with great appreciation to compositions by William Herschel (1738–1822), Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), Aleksandr Borodin (1833–1887), Sir Edward Elgar (1857– 1934) and Ernest Ansermet (1883–1969); and new pieces by Iannis Xenakis (b. 1922) and Richard Bing (b. 1909). At the end of the concert, the conductor, Tom Eisner (b. 1930), mo...