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- deadapostle, on 11/22/2008, -1/+113My older brother is also what keeps me from inheriting all of my father's goats and chickens.
- jayrok, on 11/22/2008, -3/+84I would think having a younger brother would cut your chances of having children on account of seeing what a little bastard he is and how much having kids sucks.
- JasonAdams13, on 11/22/2008, -2/+46***** YEAH OLDER SIBLINGS ARE AWESOME
Now we don't just give you noogies, we also stop you from procreating. - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -1/+38This whole article/study sounds pretty flawed.
- dxgg, on 11/22/2008, -0/+33FTA: "Sheffield University researchers made the link after looking at birth, marriage and death records of three generations in pre-industrial Finland."
Pre-industrial Finland. Yeah, that pretty much represents the world as a whole. - pstroll, on 11/22/2008, -0/+29article buried
Dailymail = pseudoscience,crackpots,astrology, celebrity worship - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/22/2008, -0/+25Correlation != Causation
These researchers suck as research. - emt1451, on 11/22/2008, -0/+23Also, the more older brothers you have, the more likely you will be gay. I'm not joking.
- pastathellama, on 11/22/2008, -0/+22for some reason I can't stop laughing at that comment.
- tasteinmymouth, on 11/22/2008, -0/+20Strange, typically dailymail is so damn reliable!
- tulwave, on 11/22/2008, -2/+19hmmmm. I don't get it
- diggtochina, on 11/22/2008, -2/+18yeah cause he kicks you in the balls all the time
- netneutrality, on 11/22/2008, -1/+17Who reads the Daily Mail? And why does it keep turning up on Digg?
- regression, on 11/22/2008, -0/+15that's because it's funny, especially the part with the goats and chickens.
- arkboysooner, on 11/22/2008, -0/+14it's because of suspect research...
"Sheffield University researchers made the link after looking at birth, marriage and death records of three generations in pre-industrial Finland."
How about doing some research on I don't know..modern day people. - RobLikesBRunch, on 11/22/2008, -0/+13I'm sorry, but any information posted on the dailymail.co.uk should automatically be deemed inaccurate and written by 10-year-old. I feel bad for the poor souls who read that crap and are on the receiving end of the plethora of stupidity found at the dailymail.
Buried for retardation. - iEnigma, on 11/22/2008, -0/+12Is there a way I can automatically bury every submission from Daily Mail?
- Serphyas, on 11/22/2008, -1/+12AMEN. If my hypothetical son ever acted like my younger brother I'd probably hang myself.
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -0/+9Buried as inaccurate. I'll file this with the "wearing boxers raises your sperm count" article.
- huff51, on 11/22/2008, -0/+8i too have an uncle
- breadfred, on 11/22/2008, -3/+11I have an older sister. That put me off having kids for life. Yeah, I am an adult and 43 years old. It still puts me off. If my future daughter would only turns out 10% like her I stay away from having kids.
She probably thinks the same about me. - darkfate, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7They do whatever they can do get money for more research. My psychology teacher complains about this nearly EVERY class. People should know the difference between an experiment with controls and a correlation study which doesn't prove cause and effect. Rarely do studies show cause and effect because there are too many variables.
- bodger, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7It's the Daily Mail, don't try looking for logic.
- Zalyster, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Pre-Industrial Finland IS modern...lol
- Zalyster, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6So your alcoholic brother could take advantage of her...?
- FasterGun, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5FTA: "Those with an older sister had a 67 per cent chance of having children. Having an older brother cut the odds to 62 per cent."
Why highlight only the brother in the title when there is only a 5% difference between the genders? Like, I dont care that much, but Id really like to know the reason. - breadfred, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5No you don't.
- DivineMonkey, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4No wonder my brother has no kids or even a woman. It's all my fault!! *sniff sniff
Or maybe he should stop playing WoW... - breadfred, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4I cannot believe I am being dugg up. I am obviously not alone in having a difficult sister.
- lowtolerance, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4I went to high school with two brothers who were both gay, and they had like 5 older brothers, so I'd have to say there might be some truth to this.
- bomb288, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5Sibling rivalry, the older brother is most likely the one kicking the younger brother in the nuts.
- breadfred, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4I bet you it's my sister digging me up.
- Zalyster, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Quick, you've still got 14 days!
To marry a pregnant chick, that is. - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Smells like *****.
- victoryroadrage, on 11/22/2008, -2/+5Is this because of all the punches and various objects he throws to my testicles?
- daviddiaz, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4On what do you base your observation of white people having "bad genes"?
- slvrbullet87, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Your older brother never hit you in the nuts when you were a kid? I thought that was how they decreased the chance
- julianmaestas, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3I have also heard this, it is valid.
- kiput, on 11/22/2008, -0/+35% is within the range of an error margin. Buried as inaccurate.
- Casperlove, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Oh well- I don't want kids anyways.
:D - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Dailyfail article, instantly buried. Please stop submitting articles from a paper with less journalistic integrity than The Enquirer.
- FasterGun, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Id have thought it would be more accurate to say that having an older sibling in general cuts your chances of children.
- junkstore, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Dugg for noogies.
- grahamenglish, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2My brother's four years younger and having a baby before me (due in 14 days). Guess I didn't do my job right.
- julianmaestas, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2" the physical cost of carrying a boy may take so much out of a woman that the health of her next child suffers."
I wonder if the study accounted for how many years the age difference was; I have a feeling that the greater the gap the more likely the younger sibling WILL have children, as the mother's womb has had more time to recover. - Stormwern, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Too many kicks in the balls?
- Dementual, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2You must have an older brother!
- bigpun, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2The article doesn't explain why this phenomenom manifests in other offspring (after the birth of a boy) in the form of their hindered ability to reproduce. Also, incidentally - my younger sister is as tall as me
- TheGrog, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3What do you mean white people have bad jeans? We wear designer. We also started the companies that make the jeans.
- ssjbriguy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2That is such a small difference that I bet it's simple random variation. Considering the article does not explain their methodology, I would guess that these results are NOT statistically significant; i.e. it's *****, doesn't tell us anything new, but they want to get published by putting a sensationalist spin on it.
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