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  • Re: I can't relate this to my family at all

    My expereience is much the same - I'm the oldest of 9 - 5 boys, 4 girls - and the middle and youngest children were the 'smartest', went the furthest. My own children - both boys now 30ish - are the opposite - the youngest is the quickest. As said, the day care situation, both parents working, and a host of other issues can have an affect on the ...
    Posted to Family by smb08 on June 27, 2007

  • Significance vs. Practicality

    I am a graduate student working on a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, and I'd like to allay everyone's fears about these articles. Yes, they found a difference between older and younger sibling's IQs, but that difference is hardly a large one. Let me explain a bit about the way IQ works. Based on a large database, everyone's IQ is normalized, ...
    Posted to Family by KALMBOB on June 27, 2007

  • Birth order effects disappearing?

    One of the problems with studying birth order effects - and the reason why our results may not match some older beliefs/studies - is that children are not raised together anymore. With so many kids in daycare, young children spend most of their waking hours in the care of others surrounded by children other than their siblings. Instead of ...
    Posted to Family by playingtrix on June 27, 2007

  • Re: Birth Order and IQ

    My older brother and I have never taken IQ tests, but he attended a small HBCU in Pennsylvania, majored in computer science, and now teachers computer courses in a Baltimore high school. I attended a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, just graduated magna cum laude in English, and am now a reporter for a small newspaper in DC. There ...
    Posted to Family by falseprophet on June 26, 2007

  • Birth Order and IQ

    I would humbly suggest the tests to measure IQ are not capable of measurement as fine a 3 points and such results are well within the margin of error. When I was a child, my mother decided to earn her masters degree in testing. She was a teacher and thought the degree would help her advance at work (I didn't see much difference in her work before ...
    Posted to Family by MacAdvisor on June 26, 2007

  • As the last of four...

    ... and all girls, I am leaning more towards explanation 4) Younger siblings are less likely to be smart but more likely to be brilliant. I may do stupid things quite frequently but all my sisters call me when they want easy answers for anything, whether it is family history or answers for trivia questions, music, movies, books, food, recipes, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by pbev on June 24, 2007