> I don't understand how knowledge of a broad amount of words maps to creativity? It's not exactly, but from first principles, using it as a proxy does make so

> I don't understand how knowledge of a broad amount of words maps to creativity? It's not exactly, but from first principles, using it as a proxy does make some sense. A robust finding in the educational literature is that creativity is generally limited by how many things you know that are relevant to the topic at hand e.g. people who've never programmed before are not actually good at writing creative programs (there's a subtle distinction here where the end goal of the program may be creative, but how they go about getting there is unlikely to be creative). So, very roughly, if you consider someone knowing more words as a proxy for them knowing both more concepts and having more connections between those concepts, you would expect them to have more creative output on topics of general interest (on average). source: former educator