“…Since then, history has shown quite an opposite trend: The United States, placed on the bottom first half of the table in 2004, enjoyed the second rank in the last edition of the index (Florida, Mellander, & King, 2015). This trend also coincides with the unprecedented growth of creative innovation and progress, as well as increasing recognition of the role of creativity in society, education, and human development (e.g., Barbot, Besanc ßon, & Lubart, 2015;Corazza, 2016;Hopp, Zhang, Hinch, O'Reilly, & Ziegler, 2019;Plucker, Kaufman, & Beghetto, 2015;Runco, 2004;Said-Metwaly et al, 2020). It is primarily on this ground-rather than the lack of TTCT scores decline-that we posit that there is no such thing as a creativity crisis.…”