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Equality & Envy

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Mirage of Equality

A study of National Merit Scholarship finalists separated out the firstborn from the later siblings. More than half of those finalists were firstborns, even in five child families. A later study showed that IQ differences among siblings translated into income differences between them and unrelated individuals with different IQs.

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