To: Academiadotorg
A study of National Merit Scholarship finalists shows that firstborns are finalists more often than their multiple siblings combined With a birth rate of 1.84, 54% of children are first born and 46% are second or later (ignoring combined families and child deaths). I would expect there to be a majority of first born winners. Plus we're naturally superior. :-)
19 posted on
04/13/2018 12:44:57 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
To: KarlInOhio
Oops. I screwed up the math. I forgot that women who don’t have any babies pull down the birth rate but don’t skew towards firstborns. My math assumed one or more babies per woman.
20 posted on
04/13/2018 12:47:41 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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