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The First Born Smarter Analysis

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Classification If you are not an only child, have you ever wondered if being the oldest or middle child ever hurts you on being smarter than the other? In Jeffery Kluger’s essay, he discusses the difference in birth order and how it plays a big factor on being successful in life. Whether you are the first, second, or third born, it all hinges on the birth order. He talks about the different orders in the essay and that is what we are going to be talking about in the essay. First, he writes about in “The Power of the Birth Order” is the first born. The studies discussed in his essay show that the first born should be smarter, scoring higher on I.Q. and SAT tests, therefore being more successful. He or she will also less likely …show more content…

The youngest child will take more risks in life, the daredevil if you will. In the essay, Kluger talks about how the youngest usually participate in the most dangerous sports and that puts their bodies out there to get hurt more often. The youngest will take riskier jobs than the eldest and middle child. They also make very good comedians like Stephen Colbert, because they are always wanting to be noticed. The youngest will also score the lowest and also show the least amount of worry about grades and slack even more than the middle child. In “The Power of the Birth Order”, it gives the example of the Egret. The egret is bird that hatches her eggs differently than any other bird. She broods her eggs at different times instead of the same time so that the all hatch at different times. So your first will be born and given the most attention like in the human birth order. Then you have the second born who is the youngest, but different than the human birth order, gets the least amount of attention and gets the least amount of nutrition and the more eggs she lays the harder it gets for the younger ones to survive and sometimes results in death of the young ones if food is scarce. It is sort of a survival of the fittest situation unlike the human birth order as we read throughout the

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