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Existing tests have failed to live up to claims made by their authors. Although researchers have identified the inadequacies of these tests, none has conducted a detailed empirical study to ascertain what they actually measure, and none has systematically measured the consistency of subjects' responses across cultures.","This study attempts to partially remedy this situation by assessing the efficacy of the Maitland Graves Design Judgment Test (1946, 1948) in a cross-cultural setting. Specifically, 1,026 high school and college subjects representing art trained and non-art trained backgrounds from the United States (US) and Nigeria participated in this study. Although the main results confirm earlier studies that showed that the test was inadequate in measuring aesthetic judgment as defined by Graves, this study supports Graves's claim that art groups consistently scored higher than non-art groups. 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