Sex of Person Drawn by Japanese, Navajo, American White, and Negro Seven-Year-Olds

Summary

Navajo, Japanese, American white and Negro 7-year old drawings were compared for proportions of self-sex to opposite-sex figures drawn. When the sexes were pooled across the four races, chi-squares showed a highly significant difference between the sexes in the proportions of self-sex figures drawn. Girls drew self-sex more frequently than boys. However, both boys and girls drew their own sex more frequently than the opposite. The tendency to draw self-sex was strongest among the Japanese.