PERCENTAGE RATIO AND NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION ZIPF OF CREATIVITY AND IQ IN A POPULATION

Abstract

The article focuses on the problems of studying creativity. Western scientists calculate density of talents in an ethnic group differently. Some of them are of the opinion that it is 0,025% or 1-2-3-4-5-68% out of total population, some suggest 10-15-16-20-30-50%. The most prominent American specialist in creatology J. Renaullyis more cautious; he strongly criticizes those who appreciate distribution of creativity too low 1-5%), he himself considers that the number of creative people is 5-15-25% out of general population. The given figures show that currently researches still follow the wrong methodological supposition of F. Galton (1822-1911). Psychologists often dispute about the notorious conception of bell Gaussian curve as “normal distribution” of talented people suggested by Galton in his work “Hereditary Genius” in 1809. Besides, many western scientists try to identify talent, sometimes even stroke of genius with intellect with IQ over 115-120 grades. Though it is a traditional statistic procedure myth of IQ has been considered unacceptable from methodological point of view for a long time. All this means that studying creativity is quite a complicated scientific problem and requires crossdisciplinary approach. According to the author, density of talented people in a population doesn’t reveal hypothetically suggested “normal distribution” accepted by the majority of foreign psychogenetists under the influence of the first profoundly wrong eugenic theory of Galton. His popular statistical hypothesis has been neither supported nor convincingly disproved by following scientific researches for a hundred years. We think that distribution of talents in a population presents a completely different picture found by an Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1924), which is now known as the Pareto and Zipf principle or the law of hyperbolic distribution. Our model means that the proportion of potentially creative people is the square root = 1/10 of general population. If we take as a basis that the number of people in a population is 100% then the number of talents in it is 10% that from mathematical point of view it is a square root or geometrical average. Consequently it is necessary to pay attention to the completely forgotten in psychological literature 8% group of talents both in selective and random selections of Galton published in his times. This unreasonably ignored hypothesis currently deserves thorough scientific analysis because it completely disproves his own preconception eugenics that is unsuccessful myth about heredity of talent. Unfortunately, this valuable discovery of Galton concerning random manifestation of talents in a population has been systematically neglected. Anglo-Saxon psychologists supporters of the notorious eugenics dealing with testing IQ non-correctly referring to genetics realized cruel forced sterilization of people in the USA and Western Europe in 1908,1976 on the basis of quite a doubtful testing of IQ. Anyway in European society true culture is acquired only by 10% of general population. According to the theory of communication only 10% of information in comparison with general information is important that is it is the square root of 100%. Besides only 10% of the given population has asymetric functioning of both hemispheres of human brain a necessary and inevitable condition for realizing creativity. It is also clear that only 10-125 of the given population has dominating of the right hemisphere (the center of creativity, intuition, foreseeing and emotional life). The author reveals theoretical limitation of pseudoscientific popular technologies of testing IQ in western countries over a hundred of years, following it false eugenic methodological message and rotating round it great amount of assets.