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</html><description>Yes, according to one study of American children. Excerpt: Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William &amp; Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward.&hellip;</description></oembed>
