Are lastborns creative risk-takers? Are firstborns smarter? What's the deal with birth order? - Barking up the wrong tree
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Sulloway tested his theory by investigating the birth order of individuals who had founded or supported 28 radical scientific innovations versus those who were the most vehement detractors of such novel ideas. In 23 of the 28 cases, laterborns were indeed the driving engines of the radically new scientific theories
Fascinating. As is this:
"We consistently found that firstborns have developed a preference for mastery goals (which are based on self-referenced standards of competence), whereas secondborns have developed a preference for performance goals (which are based on other-referenced standards of competence)."
9:16 AM May 29 2012