It is great to be oldest!
I love it when the newspaper prints the obvious! (no ego issues at all!)
Growing up as the eldest son means being the smartest: study TheSpec.com - Local - Growing up as the eldest son means being the smartest: study
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (Jun 22, 2007)
Boys at the top of the pecking order -- either by birth or because their older siblings died -- score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers, a study has found.
The question of whether first-born and only children are really smarter than those who come along later has been hotly debated for more than a century.
Norwegian researchers say it isn't a matter of being born first, but growing up the senior child, that seems to result in higher IQ scores. Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal report their findings in today's issue of the journal Science.
It's a matter of social rank in the family. The senior boy -- the first born or, if the first-born died in infancy, the next oldest -- scored highest.
Kristensen, of Norway's National Institute of Occupational Health, and Bjerkedal, of the Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services, studied IQ test results of 241,310 Norwegian men drafted into the army between 1967 and 1976, all aged 18 or 19 at the time. The average IQ of first-born men was 103.2, second-born men 101.2, and second-born men whose older sibling died in infancy scored 102.9.
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/210566
Growing up as the eldest son means being the smartest: study TheSpec.com - Local - Growing up as the eldest son means being the smartest: study
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (Jun 22, 2007)
Boys at the top of the pecking order -- either by birth or because their older siblings died -- score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers, a study has found.
The question of whether first-born and only children are really smarter than those who come along later has been hotly debated for more than a century.
Norwegian researchers say it isn't a matter of being born first, but growing up the senior child, that seems to result in higher IQ scores. Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal report their findings in today's issue of the journal Science.
It's a matter of social rank in the family. The senior boy -- the first born or, if the first-born died in infancy, the next oldest -- scored highest.
Kristensen, of Norway's National Institute of Occupational Health, and Bjerkedal, of the Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services, studied IQ test results of 241,310 Norwegian men drafted into the army between 1967 and 1976, all aged 18 or 19 at the time. The average IQ of first-born men was 103.2, second-born men 101.2, and second-born men whose older sibling died in infancy scored 102.9.
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/210566
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