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The sample is simply too small to draw any conclusions Isaac Send a noteboard - 06/01/2010 12:58:31 AM
In any event, spanking and child abuse is like nudity and obscenity, we know it when we see it, so to speak. Statistical analysis tends to be too blunt a tool to analyze all the shades and subtleties of human interaction, heck, you could massively traumatize a kid by not spanking them and telling them every time that they were too weak and frail to sustain the kind of punishments 'we had back in my day' etc.

They should be interviewing adults, not kids. Most adults are less likely to lie about their spanking level, whereas an adult talking about their own children or a child talking about their own disicpline is very inclined to be false, intentionally or otherwise. Since your average adult dates to a time when spaking was entirely acceptable, they are unlikely to feel queasy about answering yes on something they also intellectually know is anonymous anyway, whereas most kids are going to have at least some sort of paranoia they might be being personally analyzed, so you could easily end up with one group false reporting for fear of their parents getting into trouble and another group massively rounding up for sympathy and attention, or general pranskter tendencies.
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girl... - 06/01/2010 05:24:20 AM 439 Views
Its all about where the parent is coming from.... - 05/01/2010 04:13:44 PM 415 Views
I think upside the head works fine - 05/01/2010 05:14:41 PM 378 Views
Those researchers should know better than to publish that. Children have no long-term memories of... - 05/01/2010 05:06:21 PM 454 Views
I don't know. I mean, yes it could be better designed - 05/01/2010 05:17:02 PM 503 Views
Interview studies are suspect in general. - 05/01/2010 05:31:31 PM 405 Views
we can't really judge simply on what a newspaper reported. - 05/01/2010 05:47:13 PM 392 Views
Better study: - 05/01/2010 06:58:04 PM 456 Views
yes because a parent wouldn't lie about how they hit their kid. - 05/01/2010 07:02:10 PM 410 Views
and kids are completely honest all the time? - 05/01/2010 09:46:03 PM 385 Views
yes, they do. I don't disagree with you - 05/01/2010 10:04:49 PM 379 Views
Yes, asking the parents would be far more accurate. - 06/01/2010 01:09:41 AM 355 Views
Re: Better study: - 06/01/2010 03:16:03 PM 353 Views
Nope, just applied common sense *NM* - 06/01/2010 03:32:00 PM 150 Views
Floffe, your version of common sense isn't common. *NM* - 06/01/2010 03:41:43 PM 160 Views
That's true, yes. However, it's hard to find the study itself. - 05/01/2010 07:21:57 PM 408 Views
Personal experience? - 05/01/2010 08:34:37 PM 478 Views
This. for the following statement.... - 06/01/2010 03:13:38 PM 360 Views
The sample is simply too small to draw any conclusions - 06/01/2010 12:58:31 AM 464 Views

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