Eldest Siblings are Smarter?

[AB Asks]

New research has controversially announced that first born children are likely to have higher IQs than their siblings. The research looked at 250,000 male Norwegian conscripts. There have been many different claims as to why this is the case including; the eldest child gets more undivided attention from their parents from an early age, or that differences occur in the womb before birth because with each subsequent pregnancy the mother produces higher levels of antibodies that may attack the foetal brain. What do you think? Are you eldest siblings cleverer than your brothers/sisters?

[4getmenot]

well yer look at the youngest redcrx :-)

[dot.hawkes]

is this research not rather tainted, Norwegian conscropts are probably bored, juvenile micky takers, don't trust the source. Do your own survey or make the test cases a more sound base for the assessment and analysis.

[Hellyon]

I'm the oldest but my sister has a degree and is married to a millionaire. I have 6 o levels work part time and married to a musician. My IQ is 140 not sure what hers is.

[wiggal]

Im the last of 3, my brother is now a deputy head teacher of a school, and also maths teacher & exams officer, my sister who is 2nd has a masters in criminal phsycology, and i left school at 16, did a yr at college and im now in a job that is not really what i want to do!
So i do agree with the statement, but at the same time, my sister has said to me she wishes she had neve gone to uni, as even with her degree, she had one job in that line and ended up signed off due to stress and now works at b&q!

[bensmum]

I am older and definitely cleverer than my brother, but then I would say that!
Of my two children the older is certainly more gifted academically but the younger is very much more practical so I would consider them to be equals.

[Goodsoulette]

I'm the eldest of the children my mum had with my dad and I am smarter than my brother. Although I have no concept of logic, at all. My 7 yr old sister is the eldest of the children she had with her second husband and I see that happening again.


Hmmm.... is my brother better looking than me.... no way lol