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The article presents objective studies of children's drawings of human figures. Since her early efforts to devise a scale for measuring intelligence through the "Draw-A-Man Test" in 1926, Florence L. Goodenough's procedure has given much impetus to attempts to evaluate personality and adjustment. At present, in clinical practice, it is difficult to evaluate drawings in any but a subjective manner. Therefore, it seems advisable to investigate those particular characteristics of drawings which are often cited as being functions of personality and intelligence. Although age, sex, and intelligence are considered to be of significance it remains a problem for research to determine how these variables are manifested. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate these variables as they effect the production of human figure drawings.

The article presents a study related to the ability to differentiate characteristics between the sexes cosmetically, structurally, anatomically and psychologically of decided importance in the sex adjustment of the individual. In studying a level of genetic development in children, it is important to obtain facts supplied by the children themselves, if possible. To do this, one must use methods for meeting children on their own level of expression. Projective methods, generally, and drawings of children, specifically, have been successfully used to study personality development and deviations. Like the boys, socio-economic level is probably related to the number of covert characteristics drawn by girls.