I'm not especially concerned about this topic, but since Pocket recommended this article to me I figured I'd start a discussion somewhat less controversial than anything to do with current events just because.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...t-personality/
So what does everyone think? Does your family's experience line up with the studies? In my family I definitely perceive my 4 year older sister to be slightly smarter than I am and also more confident, driven, and focused on achievement and success. However, as we've gotten older and more mature and more willing to share our deeper thoughts about life, the universe, and everything, I question whether she's actually more smart and confident or whether I just took it for granted that she was because she was older than me and had a lot of confidence.
One of the other things that rang true to me from the article was the difference in the way parents treat their kids growing up because each kid is different. My sister was the pushy one who insisted that her way was the right way. If she wanted to do rebellious things that my parents didn't approve of she made sure they knew she was doing them and got punished accordingly. If I wanted to do the same things I tended to hide my actions from my parents and either they never knew or they were happy to look the other way because I wasn't throwing it in their face. (minor amateur hour drinking in high school (a couple of beers, which was actually legal at the time for 18 year olds in our state, but which our parents had forbidden) as an example. Or missing curfew. I'd lie and say I had to work at my restaurant job if I was going to hang out with friends and didn't want to be constrained by the curfew. My sister would just come home past curfew.) Because I didn't stir the pot, and was still getting good grades, I slid through teenagehood without a lot of parental drama even though I was doing exactly the same things my sister had done before me.