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How much education did the greatest creative geniuses of all time need?

Eric Barker
May 7, 2012

About college-dropout level.

Via Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else:

Dean Keith Simonton, a professor at the University of California at Davis, conducted a large-scale study of more than three hundred creative high achievers born between 1450 and 1850âLeonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Beethoven, Rembrandt, for example. He determined the amount of formal education each had received and measured each oneâs level of eminence by the spaces devoted to them in an array of reference works. He found that the relation between education and eminence, when plotted on a graph, looked like an inverted U: The most eminent creators were those who had received a moderate amount of education, equal to about the middle of college. Less education than thatâor moreâcorresponded to reduced eminence for creativity.

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Title How much education did the greatest creative geniuses of all time need?
Author Eric Barker
Date May 7, 2012 1:28 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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