First-borns are smarter?

[Leon_C]

I am the first born in my family and my family seems to think I am smarter than my sister, I've always gotten better grades than her (in math and sciences) in other subjects we are about equal. She has decided not to go to university while I am currently in my first year of my Chemistry degree. It might be that my sister simply hasn't the interest in higher education, motivation and interest in a subject really does improve grades. My younger sister certainly isn't stupid, she is a good artist, far better than I am, I suppose we just have different strengths.

[Breedingvariety]

I believe it is true first borns generally are best offspring. As people get older, their bodies experience increasingly more damage depending on lifestyle and outside factors. And their offspring are affected by it. That's another side of karma.

It is unfortunate Europeans are becoming parents increasingly older.

[Lisa335]

I think it all depends on parents! If they spend a lot of time by teaching their children, then not only the first even the last will be very smart!

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Not according to my older sister...

[Larali]

I'm the eldest of three sisters and the only one with a gifted-level IQ. Sadly, I also got the short end of the stick on looks

[Magnolia]

I wouldn't depreciate the fact - many parents tend to give more attention to their first child. Everything is new for them - so they spend more time to educate them, etc.

I was born as third child and everything was taken as a matter of course. Both my siblings were good at schools, everybody in our family had university education, etc. Nobody doubted I would be like that too and nobody asked me if I wanted or not and nobody gave me attention in these matters.

[Bobby Martnen]

I'm the first born in my family.

I do better on standardized tests than my younger sibling, but my younger sibling gets much better grades in school than I ever did.