A studyj to ignore

The Portland Press Herald reports that:

 A study released Wednesday shows that Portland's creative work force continues to grow, but the organization that paid for the analysis says more needs to be done to attract artists, professionals and entrepreneurs to Maine's largest city.

Which sounds good until you read this:

Portland's population of creative professionals – defined not just as artists but as chief executive officers, information technology and marketing professionals, financial managers, lawyers, scientists and professors – increased from 18,463 in 2002 to 20,479 in 2011.

Not until academic hustler Richard Florida came along with the phrase "creative class" had any one thought that chief executive officers, information technology and marketing professionals, financial managers, and lawyers were creative types. But then it's the same sort of business school abuse of language that describes greed as entrepreneurship and fiscal success as visionary.