Robert Zajonc and Gregory Markus came up with a theory relating your birth order to your intelligence. This statement was something that was applied to after using other resources of data, rather than actually conducting an experiment.
Zajonc and Markus sought out a research project which studied the effects of malnutrition on the intelligence of children post World War II. "As part of this research, an intelligence test called the Raven test, similar to the IQ test, was given to over 350,000 Dutch males when they became 19 years of age." The results of this test showed that the larger the family and further down the birth line, the worse they scored on the test. Zajonc and Markus theorized that "children will attain higher intellectual capacities if they grow up in environments that provide greater intellectual stimulation. The stimulation they were referring to was a parents own passing of knowledge and siblings. Depending on how much each family member contributes to the......
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