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Just as I suspected, "birth order personalities" are a myth

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Spurred by a recent New York Times article, I was happy to find that these stories of birth order personalities have been found to be a myth, when examined scientifically and objectively:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656615000525

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1506451112

"...Most important, however, we consistently found no birth-order effects on extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, or imagination. On the basis of the high statistical power and the consistent results across samples and analytical designs, we must conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain...". 

I guess they should have written "Most importantLY," since it's modifying "found." 

However, it has been shown that the odds for a man to be gay increases with the number of older brothers he has...

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