24Exhibit C 54
Pearson endeavoured to prove a high degree of inferiority in
the first born, physically and intellectually as well as morally. But
his results are very open to attack, as Weinberg has recently shown;
one is reminded of Pearson’s results in Crzellitzer’s Figure C 54—
first and later born. Crzellitzer writes thus about this — “ A high
degree of myopia is more frequent amongst first born than among
later children. The disadvantage of the first born in respect of
myopia is based on a greater hereditary taint and on no other
factor. Where there is no hereditary taint about one quarter to
one-third are affected, no matter whether first, second, third, etc.,
