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Schizophrenics used little colour except red, they used low intensity colours, and
little line. This implies some other activity than colour was filling the space (since from
the results, space was filled). The correlation of drawn line with space may be
underestimated since the plot showed a non linear relationship, unusual in that there was
a loose correlation up to about half filled with drawn line, so drawn line was most used
at that point and then as space increased, drawn line decreased. This pattern is consistent
with the negative correlation between painted and drawn lines shown by most groups.
The space was filled with either colour or line (and none consistently as there were no
correlations with space). Line was likely to be light pencil (possibly writing 321 ), which
fits with the score for low intensity black and predominantly thin line.
321 Many studies report 'writing in' as a frequent indicator of schizophrenic drawings, Amos 1982 gives
examples, op.cit., or patient status, Cohen et al. 1988, op.cit., but others have found no differences
Russell-Lacy et al. 1979, op.cit., or infrequency Miljkovitch et al., 1982, op.cit.
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