Torrance's rests of Thinking Creatively With Pictures and Words, Forms A were administered to 9 sets of 4 brothers in Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6 who were a little over a year apart from each other. Analysis showed that the second-born performed significantly better on both tests.
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