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Want to be more creative? Drop that iPad and head to the great outdoors.
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t sent students out into nature with computers, to test their attention spans. "It was an abysmal failure,
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pencil-and-paper creativity quiz, the so-called Remote Associates Test, which asks people to identify word associations that aren't immediately obvious. Four days into the trip, they took the test again
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Half of the 56 hikers took the test before going backpacking in the wilderness, and the other half took the RAT test on the fourth day of their trip. The groups went into the wild in Alaska, Colorado, Maine and Washington.
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took the test four days into the wilderness did 50 percent better than those who were still immersed in modern lif