Persons who reach high levels of intellectual achievement in school tend to be:
a. high in social interest.
c. second-borns.
b. first-borns.
d. characterized by a superiority complex.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: In many areas, from college attendance to high-level management, first-borns are over represented relative to their proportion of the population. More first-borns than later-borns become eminent, and they tend to attain greater intellectual achievement in academic settings and greater power and prestige in their careers.
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