Review of Order of Birth, Parent-age

Abstract

Reviews the monograph, Order of Birth, Parent-age, and Intelligence by L. L. Thurstone and Richard L. Jenkins (see record 2006-11952-000 ). This monograph of the Behavior Research Fund consists of two parts. The first is a statistical study of about 1,500 cases drawn from the records of the Institute for Juvenile Research, for the purpose of discovering what relations exist between birth order and intelligence and between parents' age and intelligence. The second part is an extensive survey of the literature on the relation of birth order to various anthropological, psychological and medical data. This monograph is an important contribution to a practically and scientifically important problem. The reviewer's only criticism is that one or two sections of Part I and several sections of Part II have the appearance of "space-fillers." Still this addition of material may be a virtue, not a vice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)