Just realized there’s something even stronger than life stage effects distorting generational effects: birth order effects. Variance between oldest and youngest personality makes a big difference. With 2 children or 1 child, parent’s own birth order has an effect
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Not empirically supported. Read Harris’ The Nurture Assumption
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Absence of evidence != evidence of absence etc... my anecdata makes me suspect there's a there there... and I don't trust academic social psych conclusions anymore since replication crisis
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Yes, I understand. Read 10 most replicated behavioral genetics article, then Harris ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26817
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Hmm... I don't see a birth-order reference in the top 10 there, just very broad characterizations
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