Hey, even if M's IQ is three whole points higher than mine, the fact is that her BQ (or Bitterness Quotient) is off the charts. I can trace it back to the summer of 1989. Our mother forced us to enter a summer reading program at the library, where the children who read the most books over eight weeks received glory, fame, and a gift certificate for a hot dog at Dock Lunch.
Now, M is a speed reader. Seriously, she went through Anna Karenina like it was a flip book. But that summer I got the prize. Now, maybe it was because they mixed up our first names, but I'm not going to sit here yelling "Recount!" after all these years. Also, she tried to stuff my victory hot dog in my ear. After I'd already put mustard on it.
But I digress. My big question about this article concerns the second-born siblings "who became the eldest in the household after an older sibling had died. Their scores came out the same, on average, as those of biological firstborns." So, does this mean that if something tragic and, of course, completely unexpected were to happen to M, my IQ would actually go up? Something to think about...
