Older and smarter students, as well as those who hailed from a warm family environment, tended to rank high on the social totem pole.

年纪大些、更聪明的学生，以及来自温暖家庭环境的学生通常社交等级更高。

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Let's briefly count off and nickname some of the leading older-kids-are-smarter theories reviewed by the economists, which push back against the principle of first pancakes.

现在让我们简单概括一下并回顾一下经济学家对于那个“第一个煎饼”的理论，并且来做出反驳。

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My mother learned to cower, I learned to fight with him, and my sister, two years older and obviously smarter, did all she could to pass for perfect.

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At one point or another, everybody tries to justify their participation in behavior that defies common sense and good judgment by claiming that someone else, usually older and putatively smarter, told them to do it.

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So what can supervisors do with new employees who expect to be rewarded simply for showing up, ask for a raise after a month of mediocre performance, and think they are automatically smarter than their experienced older colleagues?

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