The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Form L and the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test were administered in a counterbalanced order to a random sample of 401 native born Jewish children (CA = 5.22 yr.) who were attending the kindergartens and primary grades of suburban day (Yeshiva) schools. These children were of high average intelligence. There were no statistically significant differences between their performance on the Man, Woman, and Self scales for either the boys or the girls. For a selected sample (N = 201) of preschool children, the performance on the Goodenough-Harris Man scale was significantly below the CA norms for both the boys and the girls.
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