A non-clinic population of 7-yr.-old children, 300 boys and 300 girls, was tested with the Bender-Gestalt test and their protocols scored by the Koppitz system. No significant sex differences were found when the mean raw scores were compared. Similar studies of non-clinic populations at different age levels are indicated.
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