One of my guilty little secrets is that while I tease my DW for watching it, I enjoy watching Project Runway.
Sometimes the catty drama is way OTT but the sheer inventiveness of these people is staggering. I definitely think that high creativity is a proxy for high intelligence.
One of my DD's friends is an incredibly creative girl - supremely talented at Art - can make great masks with the barest of materials, sculpt and draw. She is also talented at Maths.
Her parents are our friends too but it sad to see that they do not appear to see how intelligent their daughter actually is. She has no academic encouragement from them really because as children they had such terrible fun-starved childhoods that they do not enthuse her to study at all.
I actually think that this girl could give my DD a run for her money were she given the chance...
