[babble-on]

That’s just cause their parents are dumb.

[OneWingedShark]

showed the more a child was spanked the lower his or her IQ compared with others.

Then why do I have a high IQ?

[mamelukesabre]

leftist propaganda.

[Revolting cat!]

I coulda been a contendah!

[cripplecreek]

Maybe kids who got spanked less were quick learners.

I got spanked but usually not for the same thing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs

That's probably why they get spanked you silly duck! It's harder to get their attention.

[Jedidah]

Crap.

And I speak from experience: kids who got their fannies paddled when appropriate and who top out on those IQ charts.

Loving discipline instills critical thinking, wise decision-making, and good character.

[Clemenza]

While my father occasionally refused to spare the rod, I did notice as a child that the folks who used to FREQUENTLY beat their kids in public weren’t exactly the classiest folks and were usually from the shallower end of the gene pool.

[fso301]

An unspanked child may explore more while the parents who spank often do so because the curious child is getting on their nerves.

[dfwgator]

Perhaps their low IQ is why they get spanked so much.

[Stentor]

My theory is that a stupid kid engages in more behavior that will get him spanked. (Am against spanking and using this to illustrate mistaking correlation for causation.)

[farlander]

What a crock. If that was actually the case I’d have never made it out of grade school... Oh, wait... DOH!

Yep! Complete crock of BS. Hell my momma broke so much stuff off my behind (well deservedly) she was single handedly supporting the cookware and wood industries.

[xjcsa]

Alternate title: Dumb Kids Get Spanked More

[RichInOC]

Maybe some of them are suffering brain damage?

[tsmith130]

This is bull. I seldom, if ever, got spanked and I’m dumber than a box of rocks.

[smokingfrog]

Dang! And to think I coulda been a genius!

[libh8er]

I got my fair dose of spanking growing up. How come I am so brilliant ?

[GOPJ]

Maybe smart kids figure their parents out ... and prevent spankings.

[Joann37]

Instead of the parent telling the kid what should be done, or how to correct the behavior, maybe the parent resorts to just being a bully and hitting him instead.

I don’t mean to sound like a whiny liberal, but that’s usually what happened to me. My mom would just go off into a rage instead of telling us what the problem was and how we could do things correctly.

The abuse is something that definitely stays with you, so I can see how the results of the study were what they were.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe they’re spanking the wrong ends.