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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: CzarChasm
as yall probably already know, this is a steaming pile of unscientific BS. 1. 5 points out of 100 = 5%; never trust a study that doesnt 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.
To: Melian
2 words
willow switch.
Grandma had a backup plan for bad language
Lava soap.
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posted on
09/25/2009 9:14:02 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
To: NormsRevenge
I’m calling dad,evidently all those whoopings he gave me made me the dumb butt that I am today!
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posted on
09/25/2009 9:15:31 AM PDT
by
linn37
( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: NormsRevenge
Correlation is not causation.
Irrespective of this idiot study.
When spanking was fairly wide spread...remedial reading classes weren’t necessary in college.
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posted on
09/25/2009 5:44:11 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: TASMANIANRED
Don’t prisoners have lower IQs than other people? I guess prison is making them dumb.
To: NormsRevenge
Did it ever occur to them that a smart child isn’t going to get caught?
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:21:53 PM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
To: babble-on
Causation....correlation...and all that.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:43:55 PM PDT
by
TankerKC
(No Taxation Without Lubrication)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:45:06 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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