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Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2010 Nov–Dec;81(6):1799–1813. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01511.x

Table 5.

Percentage of children who report different types of reasoning to explain why or why they could not change to a different race

Type of reason:	Racial Constancy for Self				Racial Constancy for Others
Type of reason:	None	Superficial	Essentialist	Idiosyncratic	None	Superficial	Essentialist	Indiosyncratic
3–5-year-olds	46.7	33.3	6.7	13.3	65.0	10.0	15.0	10.0
5–6-year-olds	20.0	28.6	37.1	14.3	13.3	26.7	46.7	13.3
6–7-year-olds	7.1	0.0	78.6	14.3	7.1	7.1	85.7	0.0
7–10-year-olds	0.0	25.0	75.0	0.0	0.0	25.0	75.0	0.0