Sibling Rivalry

If you have siblings you know what it is, those fierce fights for supremacy in all shared interests.  Brotherhood is like a primordial food chain–you want to be on top.  Basketball, soccer, wrestling, best-paying summer jobs, prettiest girl friend–you name it, if there’s a shared interest there’s usually a competition.  Of course it doesn’t HAVE to be like that, and in all likelyhood such a paradigm isn’t very healthy.  I think in many respects I’ve grown out of such competition–I’m too good for it…

Of course, I can’t say that a satisfied smile failed to cross my face when I heard that what I had guessed at all along has actually been established as objective scientific truth, that is, completely irrefutable gospel:

Firstborn children are the cleverest.

The eldest children in families tend to develop higher I.Q.’s than their siblings, researchers are reporting today, in a large study that could settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order

Now, you ought to know, I do love my brothers. I just have to admit it’s a little hard not to be a little smug right now; though I’m sure I’ll quickly regain my subdued modesty, after all, I know better.

PS.  I can still dunk over all y’all–watch out!

3 Comments

  1. Ariel
    Jun 24, 2007

    It’s good to have this substantiated. :)

  2. R. Sherman
    Jun 25, 2007

    As my wife says, with the first one, you spend all your time and energy making sure s/he is perfect. By the time you get to number three, it’s like, “whatever.”

    Cheers.

  3. andrew
    Jun 27, 2007

    Tim, your just jealous that im so much handsomer and better at EVERYTHING than you!!!!

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