Can Only Intelligent People Be Creative

By A. Meta-analysis. 2005

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Are openness and intellect distinct aspects of openness to experience? A test of the O/I model. (2011, background): “…linked of the five factors to both intelligence (DeYoung, in press) and to creativity (Silvia, Nusbaum et al., 2009), and intelligence and creativity in turn relate at least modestly (Kim, 2005 and Kim et al., 2010), although this remains controversial (Nusbaum and Silvia, 2011 and Silvia, 2008).”
Identifying and Assessing Creativity as a Component of Giftedness (2012, background): “Creativity is typically both theoretically and empirically related to intelligence, but at a small (but significant) level; one recent meta-analysis found the average correlation to be r = .17 (Kim, 2005).”
Improvisation facilitates divergent thinking and creativity: Realizing a benefit of primary school arts education (2015, background): “Intelligence Assessment: Intelligence has been shown to predict some of the variance in divergent thinking scores (Kim, 2005; Silvia, 2008).”