If You're The Youngest Child, Your Mom Probably Thinks You're Shorter Than You Really Are

We all know that birth order has some kind of affect on how our personalities are perceived by our family members, but according to recent findings it also affects how our bodies are perceived - specifically, it makes everyone mistakenly think that the youngest in each family appears smaller than they really are.

A group of researchers from Swinburne University in Melbourne rounded up a bunch of mothers whose kids were in the 2-6 year age range and asked them to estimate exactly how tall their children were by marking a featureless wall. When they guessed the heights of children who were the youngest in their family, they fell short at an average of 3 inches.