ABOUT RAT TESTS.

This simple method can scientifically track how creative you are. Devised by the much-lauded US psychiatrist Sarnoff A. Mednick and his wife Martha T. Mednick, it was first published in 1959 and refined over the next decade. It remains one of the most standard, and certainly simplest, ways of testing your powers of creative thinking. You’

This simple method can scientifically track how creative you are. Devised by the much-lauded US psychiatrist Sarnoff A. Mednick and his wife Martha T. Mednick, it was first published in 1959 and refined over the next decade. It remains one of the most standard, and certainly simplest, ways of testing your powers of creative thinking. You’ll be given a set of three apparently unrelated words – the challenge is to work out what fourth word might link them. It may be a simple methodology, but that doesn’t mean that it is easy. At the end of each chapter we’ll give you two RATs to do. Over the course of the book, and as you get to grips with the nudges, they should become easier to solve.