I'm very impressed by that class - what an 'experiment' to conduct on Skinner!
I did a mixture of science (biology mainly) and psychology in my undergrad degree. I found some of the more 'soft' psych classes hard to engage with - too many assumptions built into models, models built only upon observation, weird experimental parameters etc etc - and I'd definitely take the birth order research with a hefty amount of salt. There are so many different variables that go into 'building' a person's personality - birth order is only one of them.
But then, I am also a triplet, and multiple births are a whole other kettle of fish when it comes to birth order ;)
I did a mixture of science (biology mainly) and psychology in my undergrad degree. I found some of the more 'soft' psych classes hard to engage with - too many assumptions built into models, models built only upon observation, weird experimental parameters etc etc - and I'd definitely take the birth order research with a hefty amount of salt. There are so many different variables that go into 'building' a person's personality - birth order is only one of them.
But then, I am also a triplet, and multiple births are a whole other kettle of fish when it comes to birth order ;)