Anxious Conservative Or Easygoing Rebel? Busting The Birth-Order Myths

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Birth order clearly matters, just not for personality. charamelody/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Anyone with siblings knows they can differ from us in maddening ways. They share our parents and our family history, but their personalities can be so different. Birth order offers an intuitively appealing explanation for these perplexing differences.

The only problem is, it’s a myth.