Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology, Computational & Data Science @UChicago, Santa Fe Institute, & Google tweeting about science, technology, and AI in society.
May 8 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Out today in @ScienceMagazine: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @LingfeiWu, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.
The "does creativity decline with age?" debate has been muddled by a category error. There isn't one kind of creativity. There are two...and they move in opposite directions across a career.
