Actually,I can send you a copy of my LSAT. It tests analytical ability , creative thinking ,abstract reasoning and common sense and does not involve memorization in the least.When I talk to people who do poorly on IQ LSAT tests etc,whether the subject is politics social issues or any topic, I am usually amazed at their lack of logic and common sense.
Do you think that people who developed the space shuttle ,computers ,atomic bomb,discovered DNA etc were non creative ,conventional, conservative types who did'nt "think outside the box"?What does it mean to be self taught ? Everything we know comes from somewhere.
Many on the forum think that because scientists make some mistakes they lose their credibility.Even though a space shuttle blew up , I would rather have a bunch of Caltech, MIT etc scientists working on it than some of the people in this forum . On second thought, If some of these people worked on it, it would'nt have left the ground , so nobody would have been killed.
People on this forum cite books by Huggins, Breiner ,Jarone etc. Have you looked at the bibliographies of their books? They refer to hundreds of studies published in scientific journals . Do you think scientists are not creative ?Do you think Richard Feynman etc won the nobel prize for memorization?If they put you on a desert island , would you have invented computers , radios, airplanes ?
Having a good memory won't help you in chemistry, math physics or any creative field.