I don’t think that being spoilt has anything to do with the number of siblings in the family.

not a lesson, that should read “lecture”

If you must know, however, Statistics 101 teaches you that in any range or specimen, there is a median and an upper and lower bound range in the same group. In laymen’s terms; even in a class of geniuses, you have 10% who are A students, 10% who are D students and the rest are in the middle. So please, don’t be daft and make such sweeping statements. Its unbecoming.

PS – move on from this bloody story. It has become mundane.

[Daphne – Marc, if you needed something called Statistics 101 to teach you that standards and averages are relative to the group, I’m concerned. Yes, you can assess a person based on what school they go/went to. Different schools produce different attitudes – or they used to. If that were not the case, parliament wouldn’t be stuffed full of Old Aloysians. One does not have to be a scientist to write about these matters, just as one does not have to be a politician to write about politics. And the word you are looking for is not ‘mundane’. Don’t try to use words when you are not quite sure how they should be used. It doesn’t make you sound smart, but rather the reverse.]

@El Pibe I agree with Daphne’s ”one child theory” where a child raised alone does have some personality behavioural patterns. Even birth order has an affect, let alone having no siblings. Watch this part, go directly to 22.50, taken from University of Harvard justice lessons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcL66zx_6No&feature=PlayList&p=30C13C91CFFEFEA6&playnext_from=PL

I do think that a lot would have to do with how parents bring up the only child. Will try and dig up the article and send you a copy Daphne. It made for some interesting reading.

But you are not an only child and you still have a horrible character.

[Daphne – Know me, do you? ‘Only children’ do not have horrible characters. Horrible people have horrible characters. I am a stereotypical eldest child.]

[Daphne – The world is full of people with a very low IQ and I can’t possibly be held accountable for what they think. ]

[Daphne – Strange then, how outside the experimental laboratory reality bears it out time and time again. And when you think about it, it’s obvious that a child raised alone is not going to have the same personal interacton, negotiation and cohabitation skills learned by those who have never been alone. I am not saying here that one is better than the other, because we know that the majority of awful people have siblings, but how can there not be a difference when the formative years are by definition completely different?]

If you are implying that we are here talking about the same Silvio, there is a chance that you are making a mistake.

If you read my coments, you would not have jumped to this conclusion.

I condemned what Nicola did, and I still do.

As regards the part “No guts” my eldest son was there that day, even though he was not a university student, he was there to show his support, something I am proud of.

What I hope is that the next time I have to go to a bank, they will mix me up with another Silvio, and give me the red carpet treatment, maybe with some pretty thing thrown in.