i think it was friday (i took it off from work. yeah, it was nice except for the part where i went into work yesterday because i knew i'd have to do way too much catching up on monday. that's another story thoough) while watching the morning news shows, i saw the anchors (both national and local) joking about intelligence and birth order. it was cute and i smiled.
then on one of the local shows, the weather dude happened to mention the study was only done with MALES
MALES YES MALES
yet ANOTHER example of women not being included in a study (sure it's not an important study but that sure isn't the point. as an example, for YEARS during drug testing, etc women were EXCLUDED.)
Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher I.Q.s
(now shouldn't that headline read, eldest child with a PENIS????)
By BENEDICT CAREY
The eldest children in families tend to develop slightly higher I.Q.s than their younger siblings, researchers are reporting, based on a large study that could effectively settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order..........
..........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’ 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 scientists then looked at I.Q. scores in 63,951 pairs of brothers and found the same results. Differences in household environments did not explain elder siblings’ higher scores.
Because gender has little effect on I.Q. scores, the results almost certainly apply to females as well, said Dr. Petter Kristensen, an epidemiologist at the University of Oslo and the lead author of the study. His co-author was Dr. Tor Bjerkedal, an epidemiologist at the Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services..............
(notice how they say, the results would almost CERTAINLY apply to females. what a load of steamin' shite. if one WANTED to know if it was true or not, one WOULD have included females as subjects, wouldn't one???)
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I'm an eldest child with a penis.
Of course in my family a drug-addled hamster with a broken exercise wheel and a clogged habitrail could exceed the sibling intelligent quotient by double digits.
I did notice it was a men-only study, but I also noticed why it was a men only study.
The only truly large IQ database the Norwegian scientists had available to them was from the mandatory military service pool . . . and mandatory military service was male only. To include females would have made this particular study (a minor study without much funding) prohibitively expensive. Now that there are findings that produced somewhat controversial results, other studies with more funding will be conducted and women will be included.
rick, i know it's a minor study and in my opinion not very important. it's the point
i knew they used military records, i didn't know about women in the norwegian military
yet, time and time again, women ARE excluded..........
(and i'm the first born too - sans penis though)
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