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Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs
LiveScience.com ^ | 9/24/09 | Jeanna Bryner

Posted on 09/24/2009 7:16:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

Uh...is this based on the same ‘science’ as global warming? Oh nevermind.

Let’s see....what do we know for sure. Well, we know that most liberals don’t spank their kids (and ergo, most liberals’ kids are raving brats - just watch Supernanny for evidence of that). And we also know that most scientists are liberals.

Hmmmmmm....I wonder if there’s a connection between those two facts and the release of this study.....?

And what do you wanna bet that our tax money paid for this bogus BS.


61 posted on 09/24/2009 8:28:57 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Hey, if the kid weren’t stupid to start with, the spankings probably wouldn’t be warranted.


62 posted on 09/24/2009 8:29:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: NormsRevenge

Tripe.


63 posted on 09/24/2009 8:30:01 PM PDT by verity (Obama Lies)
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Which came first the spanking or low IQ.

Can’t stand studies [often TAXPAYER funded] which utilize the most flawed parameters and questions. Ugh.


64 posted on 09/24/2009 8:31:09 PM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: farlander

What was really funny was when my mom tried just using her hand once. It not only didn’t hurt, it made me start laughing. The harder I laughed, the harder she ‘tried’ to spank (I had really pissed her off). It was hilarious! I think I lost my phone in my bedroom over that laughing fit. Now that REALLY hurt. It wasn’t worth it. Shoulda faked croc tears!


65 posted on 09/24/2009 8:32:52 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: A message

“This study is pure manure.”

You can not change a person’s IQ. Aren’t they born with it?


66 posted on 09/24/2009 8:43:00 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: mamelukesabre
leftist propaganda.

Exactly. Another in a heap of examples of so called 'research' where the result is decided upon, and then the supporting 'evidence' is manufactured. More "global warming" if you will.

67 posted on 09/24/2009 8:50:32 PM PDT by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: cripplecreek

“Maybe kids who got spanked less were quick learners.”

Or girls.


68 posted on 09/24/2009 8:53:02 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: farlander

My mother made us walk to the end of the driveway and bring her a branch off the tree to spank us with.

My coaches and school principals and male classroom teachers and wood shop teachers all competed with their various theories on how to make their homemade/shop made boards deliver the worst swats. Some believed in holes, some in tape, some thought that long and skinny was the most painful and others went for wide. I held the class records in Junior High and in High School yet I graduated and for a while my name was in the phone book of a big and important city.


69 posted on 09/24/2009 8:54:56 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: GOPJ

I figured out that I had to hide the paddle, which I did. :-)


70 posted on 09/24/2009 9:11:24 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (I am only ONE of many real Jim Thompsons, yet I am ONE.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My father used to strap us with his belt. It didn’t jar our brains one bit— but it hurt like heck. He didn’t have to do it very often!


71 posted on 09/24/2009 9:18:16 PM PDT by Melian ("In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned." Twain)
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To: OneWingedShark

according to this, I should be mentally retarded.


72 posted on 09/24/2009 9:19:16 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: XenaLee

And we also know that most scientists are liberals.

I don’t buy that! Scientists use facts,reason and logic to problem solve. Liberals use emotion. Huge difference!


73 posted on 09/24/2009 10:31:37 PM PDT by Circle_Hook
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To: NormsRevenge

Children who don’t act dumb.


75 posted on 09/24/2009 11:21:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
I figured out that I had to hide the paddle, which I did. :-)

Sounds like a smart move...

76 posted on 09/25/2009 6:40:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (When I hear "New York Times"-fair or not -what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...)
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To: Morgana

Most walmart shoppers are Republican - I doubt they’re called “walmart kids”... More like “target kids” - democrats...


77 posted on 09/25/2009 6:42:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (When I hear "New York Times"-fair or not -what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...)
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To: mamelukesabre

Good one ...


78 posted on 09/25/2009 6:44:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (When I hear "New York Times"-fair or not -what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...)
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To: Jedidah
Loving discipline

THAT is the essence of it.

79 posted on 09/25/2009 6:44:51 AM PDT by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: Revolting cat!

Children with lower IQs more likely to be spanked.

Chicken and the egg.


80 posted on 09/25/2009 7:55:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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