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ScienceDaily summarizes a new study (paywalled) published a few days ago in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
It is the first study to find a link between autistic traits and the creative thinking processes.
People with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas, new research confirms. While they found that people with high autistic traits produced fewer responses when generating alternative solutions to a problem - known as 'divergent thinking' - the responses they did produce were more original and creative.
The research...looked at people who may not have a diagnosis of autism but who have high levels of behaviours and thought processes typically associated with the condition. This builds on previous research suggesting there may be advantages to having some traits associated with autism without necessarily meeting criteria for diagnosis.
People with high autistic traits...are typically considered to be more rigid in their thinking, so the fact that the ideas they have are more unusual or rare is surprising. This difference may have positive implications for creative problem solving.
They might not run through things in the same way as someone without these traits would to get the typical ideas, but go directly to less common ones. In other words, the associative or memory-based route to being able to think of different ideas is impaired, whereas the specific ability to produce unusual responses is relatively unimpaired or superior.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday August 18 2015, @11:45PM
I find solutions no one else finds. Not that they cannot find them but they do not find them. I remain puzzled by that.
My Computer Employer Index for example. If you want to work in Portland you will search in Portland right? Maybe Vancouver but certainly NOT San Francisco.
But many San Francisco tech companies also have coding shops in Portland, Seattle, sometimes Boulder, often New York City.
So I build my list by watching Hacker News for "We're Hiring" announcements. Most of those are located only in one city but some of them are in two or more cities. Some companies are in a dozen cities, others are in hundreds or even thousands.
I also search in industries that most of us are not commonly familiar with; Defense for example. I recently discovered that Sikorsky Aircraft makes military helicopter crew compartments in Clark County, Washington, there is another shop in Portland all of whose open positions require Top Secret clearance - but most of these companies hire through their websites, those aren't particularly classified.
I was compiling all this in a couple dozen OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets as I contemplated my database schema. Good thing I contemplated it because my United States spreadsheet borked when I attempted to create its ninety-fourth tab.
I am also developing some technical measures to defeat online child pornography. Other than my suggestion that the cops use a bot to find forum threads that go on for hundreds of pages, as well as how to distinguish the kiddieporn from huge long but legitimate threads such as those at Something Awful, I don't want to be specific lest I tip off The Russian Mob, The Sicilian Mafia or The Occasional Nigerian Sole Proprietor.
But I will tell you my technical measures are mostly breadth-first search.
There is some point to the usual police depth-first search in which they bust the photographers and filmmakers, also save the lives or at least the minds of their, uh... "talent".
My take is that were we to eliminate most of the money then child pornography would no longer be produced nor distributed by professionals.
Have A Nice Day.
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