one wonders if the study inadvertantly looked at youngsters who come from families that are poor and have small education and more typically, use systems of child discipline like spanking? It is possible, one feels, that that is what made the tests find lower intelligence in these kids.

Analysts counter this by saying the study did consider the indisputable fact that one needed to be careful about picking children for the study from similar social and business levels.

And naturally the study only claims that there’s a link between the 2. It is not saying outright a spank results in a certain definite slide in intelligence. These studies about child discipline were done on a bunch of 1500 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 9, and the studies ran for roughly 4 years.

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