144 black and white preschoolers' performance on the Goodenough drawing test and the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale was influenced by socioeconomic background and sex rather than race. While no over-all difference in IQ was noted between the two tests, analysis displayed uniformly somewhat lower scores by blacks on the Goodenough drawing test.
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