The Incidence of Color Blindness Among Races
- 31 March 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 77 (1996) , 333-334
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.77.1996.333
Abstract
Percentage of color blindness in different groups, detd. by the Ishihara test, was as follows (The figures given are, % in [male], % in [female]): Whites (unselected), 8.4, 1.3; Jews, 4, 0; Indians, full-blood, various tribes, 2.5, 0; full blood, Navajo, 1.1, 0.7; mixed bloods, 5.2, 0.8; Mexicans, in Old Mexico, 2.3, 0.6; Mexican immigrants, 2.5, 0.9; Spanish-Americans, 3.8, 0.8; Negroes, Southern, 3.9, 0.8; Negroes, Northern, 2.8, 0. The differences are probably due to selection and not to race.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Comparative Racial Differences in Color-BlindnessScience, 1930
- One Hundred Cases of Color-Blindness Detected with the Ishihara TesThe Journal of General Psychology, 1929