This article is all about how birth order can affect a child's personality. It says that before just a few years ago there really was no research to back up the idea of birth order affecting a someones personality or IQ. It says that the size of the family matters. A child in a family with only two kids has a fifty percent chance of being the first born where a child with four other siblings has only a twenty percent chance of being the first born. More children mean that the parent's resources are spread more thinly and that could have something to do with it. They also say that ethnicity, wealth, and education might have something to do with it. In 2007, there was a study done that proved that a persons IQ has a small relevance to birth order. The study said that the oldest child would have the highest IQ and it would decrease as a family had more kids.
I find birth order very interesting. I can't quite decide if i believe it or not. There is evidence that shows common traits between children in the same birth order but I think that at the same time your personality depends on so much more then whether your the first born or last born. I think it depends on your family, friends, class type, (high class, middle class, and low class) and just how your raised in general. Even though i don't have a strong stance on birth order, I think it's very interesting to read about.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ruled-by-birth-order
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