BIRTH ORDER AND ACHIEVEMENT
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In a 1960s era television program, Tommy Smothers continually stated to his brother that "Mom always liked you best." The implication of the accusation was that brother Dick fared better in life because of parental favoritism that is assumed to be accorded to an eldest child in any family with multiple children, or at times to the youngest child in a large family. Ornstein (1994, pp. 59-61) reported that birth order can affect personalities. Harrigan and Finch (1992, pp. 66-71) reported that while all seven Mercury astronaughts were first-born children, most comedians were the last-born children in their families. The extension of such findings leads to contentions by some people that birth order can affect achievement in later life (Kessler, 1991, pp. 413-426). The effects that birth order may have on achievement in later life, however, are
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