What a worthless study and article. It's like if you asked a group of people from the 1930s to "draw an alien", and you compared that to modern people asked to

What a worthless study and article. It's like if you asked a group of people from the 1930s to "draw an alien", and you compared that to modern people asked to draw an alien. People from the present would draw the "gray" aliens you see on TV. Are they less creative than the people from the 1930s? No - they're just relating what they think is the accepted or most likely "correct" drawing of an alien. Then theatlantic.com comes along and writes an article asking "do modern people really understand SCIENCE? Why are their alien drawings all the SAME? Are they missing a significant IMAGINATIVE STEP?" No they are not - you idiots. Next time ask them to draw an "original interpretation" of some concept if you want them to draw something creative... otherwise people will just draw what they think is the commonly accepted answer among their peers.