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Eh.... I come from a family of 8 kids. All of us have at least bachelors degrees, many have multiple graduate degrees, including doctorates. > Additional sibli
by irrational 3y ago
Eh.... I come from a family of 8 kids. All of us have at least bachelors degrees, many have multiple graduate degrees, including doctorates.
> Additional siblings have lower cognitive scores than their older siblings.
One of my youngest siblings was valedictorian of a high school class of 4,000 students, got perfect scores on the ACT and SAT, was accepted into MIT and many ivy league schools and recently was incentivized to move to a new company with a $1 million bonus. He is straight up a genius.
I mean, obviously there are outliers to everything, but this study strikes me as maybe having a correlation and causation issue.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoI mean, do you account for that fact that your family has a correlation issue? You all are in the same geographic area, social class and economic bracket, go to the same kind of schools, have the same parents. To the extent any of these things can influence degree-having (which is not, quite, intelligence) they influence it for all of you yeah?
- QuarterReptile 3y agoWeak correlations or weak effects shouldn't drive your personal behavior. If you're worried about it, make sure your 5th/6th/nth children are way out the end of the distribution of daily minutes reading; that should do plenty to combat this effect.
- oh_sigh 3y agoYour brother would probably understand that anecdotes aren't an argument against statistical phenomena. Or maybe you would, if you had half as many siblings.