Comments on: Firstborns have higher IQs than their siblings

By: Myrna

Myrna — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:19:37 +0000

I dis agree on the topic "Firstborns have higher IQs than their siblings" because in our case. We are only two in the family. I and my elder brother both studied in The King's Academy but I am the one who always excel in the class though he did also good job. I must say that it depends on the effort you put in order to learn.

By: Gry Dla Dzieci

Gry Dla Dzieci — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:36:53 +0000

I think the main reason for that is that firstborns need to learn/find out everything themselves. Younger kids can just learn from their older brothers/sisters.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:18 +0000

Being a younger sister, i know this is not true based on my family. I would say we are equal, although we are only one year apart, but she is older, and that does not mean to me that she has a higher iq. I do find this topic interesting though to see all the information found..

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:30:03 +0000

Well, comment #9 is actually from my older brother and I think he’s dumb. So that settles that.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:06:12 +0000

All of these comments asserting that birth-order correlations with I.Q. don’t exist are a little ridiculous.

Someone didn’t just say “hey, I bet firstborns are smarter,” there’s a HUGE amount of evidence to show that they do have higher average I.Q. scores, and the fact that a handful of people don’t think their older brothers are that smart is completely insignificant.

Nobody said that ALL firstborns EVERYWHERE are ALWAYS smarter, so you can’t unravel the whole thing with a single contradictory anecdote. There’s a mountain of evidence showing that a correlation does exist, and a pretty big one at that, so it’s going to take evidence of absolutely epically greater proportions than “I know some people who don’t fit this” to mount a counter-argument.

By: amanda

amanda — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:14:17 +0000

I think that birth order doesn’t really have an effect of your I.Q. Although I am the first born and I get better grades than my brother, he is still pretty smart but he just doesn’t apply himself.

By: Sammie

Sammie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:36:49 +0000

This topic for me is hard to comment on. In my family, I have an older sister and two older brothers, and a younger brother. We are all pretty smart but the first and third child are way smarter then us other 3. But we all got the same attention and love from our parents. I just believe that they picked up on things more easily or they paid more attention. I don’t think this research is true!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:23:46 +0000

This is completely preposterous! As a younger child I can say that my brother and I have almost no differences in our IQs. I refuse to believe that he is any better than me in the brain region.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:24:41 +0000

I don’t really agree with the topic. My sister and I are about as smart as each other and she is older than me. She is six years older than me so by the time I came around I still got my parents attention and we are the only two in our family. My parents influenced my sister just as much as they did in me. My dad is also the third child in his family and he had the higher IQ.

By: L.A.

L.A. — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:39:52 +0000

Look, my brother is a good man, but there is no truth to this theory when it comes to my family. I think it depends on the effort you put in.