26 Facts about the Science of Family - mental_floss List Show Ep. 442
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Fact about the science of family.
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non-stop Hank slams. Hilarious
I lost it at John's pronunciation of "amygdala" 😂😂
Savannah Same!
Savannah same omg
I heard it and immediately scrolled down to see if anyone had commented about this.
Savannah ameegdahlah omg I'm dying 😂
John, you're rad. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Wasn't she the queen in the Star Wars Prequel? Queen Amygdala?
"I love my children so much, but not that much." - John Green
I was half expecting Hank to come in at the end of the video and slap John in the back of the head.
That would have been epic.
I would have paid to see that. :D
That would be great
Loved the brother bashing. Truly shows the love an older sibling has for the younger. 😅
I completely lost it at 3:08 John's going savage on Hank's ass.
John, I know mis-pronouncing words is your thing, but 4:02 amygdala... ouch! It sounds like you are talking about Padme Amidala from Star Wars.
I think he might me doing it on purpose nowadays. I mean... surely
I was just about to write a comment like this.
As someone who works in mental health, that pronunciation was just _painful._
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He must be a deliberate nose thumbing at us there :p
A couple weeks ago I found out that my mom's name isn't actually Mom... She has been lying to me all these years :'(
Omg that's terrible
Jorge Daniel HAHAHA!!
Jorge Daniel Is her name Dad?
This video could have seriously used a "Correlation =/= Causation" disclaimer.
6ThreeSided9 yea, especially the teenage mom thing😂😂
6ThreeSided9 Amen 🙌🏻
Life should have a "Correlation =/= Causation" disclaimer.
John's mispronunciation of amygdala activated the very thing he mispronounced.
OOOOOOHHHHH
OED says: when saying "amygdala", think more doo-wop than Star Wars. Stress is on the "myg" part.
As a middle child, all I could think during this video is "where are the facts about the middle children?" There were tons about the older and younger siblings, but what about us? Oh yeah, forgotten just like the middle child. :X
Lily Castle You are simultaneously an older and a younger sibling.
So what you're saying is: as the eldest, and also a female I am the best? That's what I'm hearing.
I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in new York city is insidious...
Yeah, I got the same exact message from this video.
***** yep.
How should I feel being male, and the youngest of 4...
youngest of four boys? Then you should feel sad you had no older sisters.
Hank, you gonna take this trash-talk from John?
duh. having an older sibling of the opposite sex helps. who else would I have practiced kissing
wait...
If you ain't good enough for family, you ain't good enough for anyone.
Sam Nassar Ha!
Yuck 🤢
I am a guy with an older sister which makes more emotionally stable, better at dating and more likeable whaaaaat? Woot woot!
TheRonster9319 thank God for that, I need all the help I can get
I really want to see Hank respond to this video!
Wow, there seemed to be a lot of correlation=causality in these studies. "Science."
Hank is so funny and in a genuine way, like he doesn't try to push humour out of him it is just there. Makes my day!
I cant wait for someone to show 16 year old Alice 6:19
#letletitgogo
It will be attached to a blue dress.
I relate to Alice quite a lot in that situation :D
To be fair, though, I'm just as likely to beg to listen to anything sung by Idina Menzel.
It's just like older and younger siblings to forget about the middle child....;)
As the oldest, and only sister, i can attest to all the wonderful things said about older sisters in this video.
So if you're studying family science do you need to record a lot of... dada? No? Okay I'll leave.
"Let it go, Alice!" Ha ha, at least she is not singing Hopelessly Devoted To You, you know, from GREASE, at the top of her tiny 3 y/o lungs at the Walgreens pharmacy counter. Oh my god! I let that happen... she was THREE! Worse, she, along with her 5 y/o sister & 7 y/o brother had the entire movie soundtrack down tight. What kind of mother! Right? *sigh*
I'd consider that a parental success, actually, particularly if that was indicative of the kind of music you exposed your little children to. Great job!
That last fact made me so happy. Love ya sis :)
Which sibling is more likely to be a Nerdfighter?
ljmasternoob Was that asked in any of the nerdfighter censuses? I hope it was, I'm curious.
I don't remember but it is intriguing.
This made me smile for all the wrong reasons. It was like a laundry list of studies on family that anecdotally don't apply to me, lol. Like I'm an only child and every single one of my best and closest friends have multiple siblings. I had a great relationship with my grandparents and have fought clinical depression for years. I disowned my deadbeat father at 7 and can safely say I have a very high level of empathy with others. You get the point, lol.
So much shade thrown on Hank!
Best episode ever!
John, you love these videos where you get to take loving pop shots at Hank don't you 😂
More mental floss please!
The only one of these facts that I can confirm is true for me, is that I never really had a hard time talking to guys growing up. I have an older brother, who is just under 2 years older than me. And then there's the massive age gap between me and my younger brothers. 12 and 16 year age difference. No sisters.
The working titles for this episode: John Green basically just roasting his brother.
John Green is the superior sibling.
Why were they shocked about the influence of fathers. I've seen other studies showing when a father is present children are more likely to graduate high school, more likely to go and attend college, girls are less likely to end up pregnant out of wedlock at a young age, boy less likely to end up in prison. This is across all racial and economic backgrounds-though more pronounced in poor communities with a lack of resources. Our society has accepted this lie that father are stupid, clueless and useless buffoons who know nothing and a woman can do it all on her own. While yes and single parent man or women may be able to do it it certainly isn't easy, far from ideal and not something to glorify or promote. Admitting you need a partner to raise children isn't sexist its common sense and biology. Children deserve two parents, children need two parents, children thrive the best with two parents.
Best one yet :)
LET IT GO, ALICE!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Second child. Older sister was ill and after four years of surgeries and hospitalization, she died when I was 7.
This means I spent most of my childhood as an only child of distracted and grieving parents.
Having one child left did not exactly make them more affectionate, and they limited my activities severely while pressing on me to be academically proficient. I was expected to excel for both of us, I guess.
I didn't succeed to their satisfaction.
I am socially awkward. And frankly have very few memories of my sister...
Sorry to hear. My 14 year old sister died in a bike accident when I was 9. My other sib, a brother, was 3 years older than me. My folks showered him with everything, and left me alone mostly. I was really bad in relationships, although I'm an affectionate person, I chose poorly. I am now 58, and have been alone for 25 years. Sad how the early things so hammered my adult life. Peace to you-
=Maine=
mark grindle Sorry to hear it. Families strengthen when they work - but it takes the effort of the adults involved to make it work. We were children and had no control - and often lacked the vocabulary - emotionally and verbally - to tell anyone what we were feeling, what we needed.
I really expected John to make a joke about the younger sibling being less likely to smoke thing... considering John's admission that he smoked as a teenager 😂
Ah. 'Let it Go'. It's a measure of your fatherhood awesomeness, but I feel your pain!
As far as I can tell, the only observed trends that apply to myself and my younger sister are that she defined her personality in opposition to mine, strong attachment to our father lead to strong empathy, and that the younger sibling is more competitive.
a•myg•da•la (ə-mĭgˈdə-lə)
www.dictionary.com/browse/amygdala
its A-Mig-Duh-luh John from one John to another
throwing so much shade at Hank
John: "A video about families? MORE LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRAG HANK FOR 9 MINUTES STRAIGHT"
what I got from this video os that all of my and my husband's issues are our parents faults. And that we need to make sure our children feel loved.
I think correlation vs causation is a chronic pitfall in this type of social science research. It can be standardized, but it is really hard to minimize the variables in human life. Interesting correlations, though.
Jessica, the science girl. Yeah I was cringing a quite bit throughout this.
The correlation between IQ and birth order completely disappears if you correct for family size. Children with more siblings (and thus less one on one time with their parents, and probably less educated or affluent parents) tend to have higher IQs, but comparing families with the same number of children does not show any advantage for the older children. If fact, you you could from youngest to oldest instead of oldest to youngest the youngest appears to the the smarter by a slightly larger (although not statistically significant) amount.
The one about teenage pregnacy, isnt it more likely because they come from the same family and environment, like you are more likely to be a teenage mom in a certain environment.
I am a heterosexual female, I'm the youngest of 9 kids, and 7 of my 8 siblings are girls (my one brother is second in line). The items in this video most consistent with my personal experience: women with older sisters are more competitive (I'm playfully vicious during board games), sibling de-identification (I hate the color pink because the two sisters just older than me were obsessed with it), I feel less overall anxiety when my relationship with my parents is at its most healthy, and men with sisters tend to be more more attentive and devoted significant others.
I'm with you...let that damn song go!! my 4 year old girl is the same.
I don't drink or smoke or do drugs mostly because I saw first hand what it did to my siblings and it was never something I wanted, but I also knew a lot of people (albeit, in a very small town where drug/alcohol/tobacco use goes up a lot) who did that stuff /with/ their siblings as a way of bonding.
Hello John! as much as I trust you, i would really like if you linked the studies you are talking about in your videos. I understand most people cant or won't bother with it, bt for the few of us who like reading papers, it would help
Hahahha. Yes!! I have a sister and a lot of this facs hit me in the liver hahahahaha love from México 🇲🇽🙋♂️
"LET IT GO ALICE!!!"
great video!
Loving John's pronunciation of amygdala it's pronounced ah-mig-dela
I'm a big fan of Hank and I believe you both have the same speech rhythm
I'm a guy with an older sister, and although I haven't done a lot of dating for someone my age, I do find it easier to just hang out with women (platonically) than with men.
UTA shoutout, woo!
Oxytocin is not only the "love hormone," but also the "racism hormone."
It encourages bonding and preference for members of the in-group, which can involve fleeing more protective and hostile towards unfamiliar individuals who could be seen as threats.
I found most of these to be consistent with my own experience as a woman with an older sister.
Fact 24, I'm 2 minutes younger than my older brother, and I don't smoke. Fact confirmed :)
Keep taking jabs at Hank. I actually watch both of you guys.for very different reasons. I didn't even know you guys were brothers. But that line about the pacifier *kisses fingertips*
I am the oldest of 4 girls and the shortest of my sisters, but they would agree that I am the smartest. I never smoked, and neither did my two youngest sisters, but the sister closest to me did for a while. I have a very strong relationship with my grandparents, but I also suffer from depression.
I have an older sister and brother. They're both terrible people who supplied me nothing positive. The only accurate fact here was the "becoming the complete opposite" one.
my brother has four sisters; i really hope he becomes a stable human being
They may cancel each other out.
As the eldest sister of three girls, I can see some correlation between me and these facts. (Except for, like John, both of my younger sisters are taller than me, but I am the smartest.) But now I have another reason to give for my perpetual singlehood: that I have no brothers.
This was interesting bro, im subbing
I'm the oldest of my parent's children and I am the shortest, at 5ft. 1/2inch, I am actually the shortest in my entire family. I would say I am the most intelligent out of myself and my siblings.
Hehe, I had my son after long-term testosterone treatment and then resumed treatment after he was born. I also had all my reproductive organs removed. So I wonder what the pregnancy/birth stuff did to my brain and if it's different given how much testosterone treatment (at my type of dose that results in my type of level in my type of body) impacts the human brain.
We don't have very much research to help make informed decisions about medical care in the world of reproductive health for trans people. Trans people who have been on hormone treatment actually do make partners pregnant or have babies relatively often these days, though, so we have lots of questions!
I figured almost all of these were common sense but I guess it's cool to have studies to back it up.
I am the youngest of three. My fiancé is the oldest of three. I am taller than my older brother and my older sister and I am both socially and physically insecure.
Interesting. My wife and I are both the eldest siblings. We also noted that the majority of our previous relationships were with oldest siblings. There is something going on there...
People always ask me, how many siblings do you have? My answer, too many.
as a older child to my brother i was told to look after him. if warned him not do some thing he do it and always got the blame why he did it and told off by my parents even after i try to stop my brother.
All of the younger siblings in my family are taller than their older counterpart. (Four of us in order: Girl, boy- and then 30 some odd years later my dad gets remarried- girl, boy, girl boy.) The youngest girl is the tallest sister, and youngest boy is the tallest brother. Oldest are the shortest. I'm calling BS on that one.
Well I'm the oldest and I'm definitely the smartest but I'm also the shortest :/
I'm the 4th child but the tallest and smartest! woo!
I knew I was smarter than my younger siblings now science has even backed me up
any research on multiples beyond twins??
"Some Evidence" = Facts....
There were three sisters in high school that all got pregnant and had babies within a month of each other. They were 18,16,and 15 years old.
Fel!
lmao I got 4 older sisters and my dating life still sucks. Thanks Science xD
Would it suck more if you didn't have sisters? that's the thing with these kinds of studies. You can't really compare yourself to yourself...only to others. So your dating life might be far better because of your sisters. you just don't know what it would be like if you didn't have them.
With my own research I have found that the youngest sibling always tend to end up becoming the tallest in the family. Wondering what your guys thoughts on this are?/
1:53 WAIT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT I WAS DOING
Sympathies, friend. I am all too familiar with "Go".
I am both the youngest and the only girl among my siblings.
And I know for a fact that our oldest is _not_ the most intelligent in the bunch.
I am the only one who never picked up smoking though. I also never had a problem talking to guys.
I have 4 older sisters. And I'm super competitive.
Hmm, the competitiveness stuff... It was done in Japan. It's like if you made a study about Engineering in Germany. A Statisical outlier.
Oldest. Not tallest. Probably smartest. And of my close friends... many of them are oldest, I guess. Even of the ones that aren't, I tend to be friends with their older siblings as well. I also definitely feel more emotionally and socially secure around my sisters, and they reciprocate.
Wait a second.. I've been told I'm empathetic, but I never met my father
I want to know the estimated percentage of households in which consensual incest occurs, such as that between siblings. But that's too dirty to mention in a Mental Floss video. =P
M. Strain Jr. Actually, that would be interesting to know.
it's estimated at about 5-6% (In the USA) but everyone agrees it's much likely to be a bit higher due to unreported cases.
Another popular statement is that everyone knows at least one person involved in Consensual incest. (even though you may not know about the incest that is taking/took place.)
Melissa Lewis See, now that is a lot has higher than I would have imagined.
It's funny because I felt that the percentage was low. Because I know it's a bit more common between cousins.
My sister should have been the older one I think xD. She's 6ft compared to my 5'4 and amazingly intelligent. The git managed to inherit all the good looking genes too
#23
I always said having kids is a bad idea.
Number 7 is kinda...ehhh..
I've always been close with my grandparents. Hell, I even live with them. But I've also been in and out of mental hospitals...so
I demand links to the sources!
How does all of this child/sibling information relate to kids with ASD and/or ADHD?
Amygdala... check your pronunciation on that one.