Scores on the creativity measures for 61 blind children did not generally vary greatly as a function of age, sex, and race, but the 11- to 12-yr.-old Caucasians did score significantly higher on verbal flexibility than did any of the other groups in the race-age analysis. Results for the blind were not unlike results reported for the sighted.
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