Younger siblings are clowns
Ahh so maybe this is why I'm so darn funny! haha..Just over half of younger siblings questioned said it was easy to be humorous, compared with just a third of those who were first-born. And just 11% of only children had the skill, according to the study of 1,000 people by psychologist Richard Wiseman. Experts said younger children were more likely to feel the need to compete for parental attention. And being funny continues into adulthood.It's a little curious that the measure was whether the kids thought it was "easy to be humorous." What if they just think they're humorous - like all those bad singers on American Idol think they are good singers?!
This kid doesn't look very entertaining (or entertained) to me. What facial expression is that anyway? The makeup messes things up a bit.
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I sometimes believe in birth order stuff, in part because my three-daughter family totally conformed to it when we were growing up, but I think in this particular study that self-report is BS, as is the apparent reason given for the "younger siblings are clowns" finding. I'm in no way convinced that competing for attention has anything to do with it.
Tue Aug 15, 01:56:06 PM CDT
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