"Given that this is HN, and a non-trivial number of us have ADHD, creativity is positively correlated with ADHD." Is this a statement of fact? As someone with A

"Given that this is HN, and a non-trivial number of us have ADHD, creativity is positively correlated with ADHD." Is this a statement of fact? As someone with ADHD and pretty confident in my creativity, I still believe this is much more cope than fact(which could be more a self-doubt thing than anything else). Further, if there is a correlation, I'd bet it's not so much an intrinsic "creativity" trait, but more effectively higher creativity because more trials. That is, along the lines of Chollet's paper, a measure of creativity should be based on a fixed budget with fixed knowledge. Among many other possibilities I haven't considered, perhaps another mechanism could be that because ADHD people spend more time thinking in less goal-oriented ways and mixing thoughts on accident, perhaps we do in fact gain some learned creativity via experience with vagueness[1]? But that might also imply that part of creativity is actually being able to diffuse more freely through thought space and lowering the barrier to attempted connections between ideas. That lower barrier leads to less likelihood of any "collision" being meaningful but maybe it's overcome by higher collision rates? Or maybe effectively higher order (not just pairwise) collisions? Disclaimer in case it's not obvious: I don't know any of the literature on what creativity even means or how it's quantified. [1] Which is me injecting an assumption that creativity ~= connecting things with no obvious or well-troden reasoning path between them. edit -- oops just looked at your profile after seeing someone elses comment. I assume you are stating a fact then, leaving original anyway