Professor Luke O'Neill
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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And the scientific question we're asking is, does where you come in the family matter?
The birth order, we call this, whether you're eldest or youngest or whatever it is.
And it's easy to look at in a way because you can say, OK, let's take a middle child.
What are the chances of that middle child becoming, say, a politician or whatever?
And they sometimes look at professions differently.
They look at personality type as well, like is the eldest going to be more dominant or whatever it is.
And then you can look at millions of people and then come to an average.
Now, again, importantly, there's no hard and fast rules here.
You can have the youngest sometimes being like the eldest in certain families.
So you're looking for an average response here.
And what's really interesting is there are these trends emerge when you look at all these big numbers.
And in science, the bigger the numbers, the better.
So the more people you look at,
the more likely it is your bottom line will be true in terms of the average.
And it had been known for a while, a big one, first of all, to do with performance and education.
And you can look at that.
You can look at A-level scores, for instance.
And the eldest is inclined to do better at A-levels.
That was a UK study.
Another UK study looked at IQ measurements and again the eldest was inclined to have a higher IQ score than a younger sibling and that seems to stand up statistically.
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