Ouch that smarts

Over at the New York Times online, the headline of the most popular e-mailed story today is "Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher IQs."

The eldest children in families tend to develop slightly higher I.Q.s than their younger siblings, researchers are reporting, based on a large study that could effectively settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.

OK, elder brother Lou, before you go and get all smug check out this story in yesterday's Daily Mail online from England. :

"Two-year-old 'Matilda' becomes youngest ever girl in Mensa"

The 2-year-old child prodigy written about, Georgia Brown, whose IQ for her age puts her on a par intellectually with Stephen Hawking, is the youngest of five children born to parents Martin and Lucy Brown.

So much for settled debates.