Another reason to refrain from spanking your child

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Spanking lowers IQ new study finds:

http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family...our-child-s-iq

[MadMan118]

That explains why I'm a bassist.

[TrooperFarva]

Correlation does not imply causation

[Simo98]

You have to love statistics.

/sarcasm

[mike_v_s]

I'm too lazy to check right now, but I hope that "study" was privately funded.

Mike

[dj150888]

Load of rubbish, I refuse to believe it for a second. I'm not pro-spanking, just sick of such tripe being written about as if its fact rather than supposition. What size was the test group? Did he take any other factors into consideration? Too many unknowns still there to mindlessly accept a "study" with such an obvious agenda.

[Stigs]

Correlation does not imply causation

Become a pirate, save the environment!

[Disco_Gee]

For every study against something, you can find one in favour of it.

[UnsungZeros]

Originally Posted by TrooperFarva

Correlation does not imply causation

There's an xkcd for everything:

[Jim Campbell]

Originally Posted by UnsungZeros

There's an xkcd for everything:

three out of four bulgarian lap dancers agree nineteen times out of twenty......as to the study b.s.....the parents stopped spanking around the middle of my generation and how's that workin' for ya....now were on the third generation of kids raised by kids that think the world owes them

[ryco]

why on earth would anyone have children??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwX-aZixthM

[Simo98]

1/3 of all car accidents are caused by been intoxicated while driving.

Therefore 2/3 of all accidents are caused by not been intoxicated while driving.

Therefore you are twice as likely to have an accident if you are not drunk, so drink up!

[TrooperFarva]

Originally Posted by UnsungZeros

There's an xkcd for everything:

That's pretty great

[NJL]

56.79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Steveaux]

Originally Posted by NJL

56.79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

No. Absolutely not.

That number is actually 62.151%

[RWP]

[steamthief]

If any of my three kids steps off the curb into traffic without looking, it's a paddlin'.

[scottice]

PC crap

[LiquidMidnight]

Originally Posted by Jim Campbell

as to the study b.s.....the parents stopped spanking around the middle of my generation and how's that workin' for ya....now were on the third generation of kids raised by kids that think the world owes them

That's as much B.S. as the the Yahoo link. You're using deductive reasoning with huge problems with internal validity to answer a question of causality that should be tested through statistical empiricism with controlled confounds. Unless, of course, you're being sarcastic. In that case...

Though to be fair, the spanking study is probably a legitimate study that's reported in a reputable peer-reviewed psychological journal in which the principal investigator recognizes that she found a correlation between spanking and IQ. She may have even built a regression model with her findings. The mainstream media jounalist just latched onto it, igorned the difference between correlation and causation, and reported it as "OMG!!! neW SuDy finDz spaNkin' yer KidZ makeZ them stuPiDer!!!!"

[sonic assassin]

i got my ass whipped growing up. a lot. and i did exceptionally well in high school and hold a college degree. they can study all they want, but they are never going to be able to pin something like intelligence. its entirely too arbitrary.