You conduct a study in which you measure how much personal hardship people encountered in the first ten years of their lives and how creative they are. You analyze the data and find a negative correlation between personal hardship and creativity.
What does this tell you?
The less personal adversity a person experiences, the less creative she or he will be.
The personal adversity a person encounters early on on causes a decrease in creativity.
The more personal adversity a person encounters, the less creative she or he is.
The more personal adversity a person experience, the more creative she or he will be.