Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fraternal birth order effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables: fra-ter-nal birth order -ef-fect
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The scientific observation that a man's statistical probability of being homosexual increases with the number of older brothers he has.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Thus the fraternal birth order effect is specific to male sexual orientation, and does not affect female sexual orientation."
"The influence of the fraternal birth order effect is not mediated by a male growing up with older stepbrothers but is influenced by them having biological brothers (who share the same mother) regardless of whether they are raised together or apart (Bogaert, 2006)."
"The fraternal birth order effect is one of the most replicated and robust findings in sexual orientation research. Each son increases the odds of homosexuality in the next son by 33% relative to the base population rate […]"

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

fraternal birth-order effect (alternative)

Questions

What does fraternal birth order effect mean?: The scientific observation that a man's statistical probability of being homosexual increases with the number of older brothers he has.

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