Observations on Taste Blindness
- 6 May 1932
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 75 (1949) , 497-498
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.75.1949.497
Abstract
The authors tested 183 full-blooded Indians at the Haskel Institute and 150 white individuals in Lawrence, Kansas, for the incidence of positive and negative reactors to the substance para-ethoxy-phenyl-thio-urea. While 42% of the white people found the substance not bitter, the corresponding figure for the full-blooded Indians was 6% and on testing 110 Indians with some white admixture the figure was 10.4%. Results in 2 families show that the varying taste reaction cannot be used as a test for exclusion of paternity.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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