its experience and age matters the most..When they did study did they taken into account age factor? if elder sibling is 3/4 years elder than younger then IQ must be higher as he has more knowledge, more exposure and all..
My observation is, if you compare 10 year old child and 5 year old child then sometimes, younger one is more sharp..(this we always observe around us and we call it as next generation is really very smart..what we came to know at the age of 10 now this new generation talks about it at the age of 7/8 or something like that).. isnt it? ---- this is again due to more exposure for yougener generation than older ones..
After all comparing these figures 101 and 103 is i think useless...!!
RE:experience and age matters
by PD on Jun 22, 2007 05:22 PM Permalink
this is again due to more exposure for yougener generation than older ones.. i mean more facilities to look into.. tv, internet, more load of study (as study burden is year by year increasing) for younger generation.... or it is genetically?
"In the study, Norwegian epidemiologists analyzed data on birth order, health status and I.Q. scores of 241,310 18- and 19-year-old men born from 1967 to 1976, using military records. After correcting for factors known to affect scores, including parents%u2019 education level, birth weight and family size, the researchers found that eldest children scored an average of 103.2, about 3 percent higher than second children and 4 percent higher than the third-born children. "
The military records of men were analysed! How does this extrapolate to the general population?
