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Research has shown that firstborn children are more intelligent; they set goals and are organized, making them determined, responsible high achievers (Sutter). Esping (2003) writes that firstborns are overrepresented as Nobel Prize winners and have often tested highest in all achievement scores. Most recent studies show correlations between better health and firstborns....
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Nobel Prize winners and have often tested highest in all achievement scores. Most recent studies show correlations between better health and firstborns. Stedman (1996) attributes the lack of firstborns in
school in the 1970s to the two-decade long decline in SAT scores during the 1960s and 1970s. (Stedman, 1996, 7). While firstborns
are viewed as more intelligent and more successful in life and in health (Pande, 2003, 395), there are many detractors to this claim, the first of them being the man
who fathered birth order theory in 1920, Alfred Adler. His study indicated that quantifiable personality differences occur in people because of their birth order, and the race was on to
prove it. Yet, the student may note, first-born theories have never been accepted without a strong disclaimer that more than birth order
is important in defining personality and attitudes. Adler was the first to make the claim. He believed "organ inferiority, parental attitudes, social & economic position, and gender roles" played much
bigger roles in an individuals success than birth order alone (Stein, 1998). Sulloway (1996) has stated that Adler, as second-born, was jealous of his older sibling, which made him pursue
the study, but the overall purpose of both men was to try and disprove Adlers theory that firstborns function better in society. At the same time, Adler would be the
first to say that first-borns are not automatically high achievers. Stein (1998) provides the basis of attitudes developed by first-borns and
other children defined by Adler, which Stein summarized, in part, as follows: POSITION SITUATION AND CHARACTERISTICS Only Retains attention of both parents, and may become a rival of one parent.
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