as y’all probably already know, this is a steaming pile of unscientific BS.
1. 5 points out of 100 = 5%; never trust a study that doesn’t publish its error rate - which is probably +/- 10% in this case
2. did they control for heredity? Could it be possible that dumb children have dumb parents?
3. I was spanked as a child only when I did something dangerous or disrespectful (the same criteria we use on our children), and my IQ is way above average. Most likely because my parents were highly intelligent, and I was raised to think for myself.
4. dumb people will probably believe this pseudoscience - yet will continue to spank their children “at random” because it seems to work.
5. otherwise intelligent people with terminal groupthink infections (you know, “liberals”) will cite this study as proof of the barbarity of spanking, and will thus continue to let their children run amuck and never mature - guaranteeing more undisciplined liberals in the future...
...which is probably the real agenda of this “study” ;-)
As you pointed out, every single poster on this thread has already figured out that this "study" is nothing but liberal propaganda.
Murray Strauss is not really a "researcher." He is a campaigner to change the laws so that parents will be arrested for spanking their children, as is already happening in Europe. (Of course they're not having many kids over there and those nations are quickly dying out.)
He's like PETA except focused on families instead of animals. Do you think that PETA is going to release a study that says that eating meat is good for you? That will happen before Murray Strauss will release an honest and unbiased study on the effects of spanking children.
Every couple years he comes out with some similar B.S. study, all of which are similarly biased and based on pre-determined conclusions.