The Recent Trends In Adolescent Creativity meg mickelsen

Summary: In recent years, studies have suggested that teen creativity in general has steadily declined, while teen intelligence( based on IQ scores) has increased, but a new innovative study suggests more nuances.  By studying over 20 years of entries in two different magazines, one featuring adolescent creative writing pieces, and one exhibiting adolescent works of visual art, scientists, without knowing any publishing dates, have concluded that creative language skills have declined while visual skills have sharpened.  The visual art features more complex backgrounds, themes, and uses a wider variety of mediums, while the creative writing pieces use simpler language and fall prey to conventional story and sentence structures.  Because these results were produced from a naturalized setting they may not apply to the entire U.S., but that are extremely authentic. Read more about it here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131115130018.htm.
Analysis:  On one level, I find this whole study ludicrous.  How can one measure creativity?  Creativity changes with the time and the population.  How can one even measure intelligence? Does an IQ test really suffice? However, on an instinctual level, the results of the most reason test make sense to me.  The world, in my opinion, seems to be more visually oriented everyday.  Because of technology, the media, advertising,  and all sorts of visual genius  reaches the vast majority of teens across the U.S. everyday.   The internet chunks out visual art at most of us without us even noticing.  Everything has to be fast and in a society of instant gratification a picture has a greater effect than text.  So, advertising has adjusted, and the world turns on the impact of design.  Adolescents, being hormonal little sponges,  take all of that inspiration in, meanwhile happily  texting away their language skills.  Take a look at the google logo, and dare to tell me you don't see a wealth of visual genius.  However, linguistically speaking, it is just gibberish. (Or at least that is one point of view)