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adjl posted...

Absolute statements are often a bad idea, I feel very comfortable guaranteeing that absolutely none of the people whose anecdotes you're sharing have truly tried everything else. They tried a couple different things, got frustrated, and enjoyed the immediate results of taking out those frustrations physically instead of putting actual effort into finding an alternative.

I never said they tried everything That said, Im not every sure that everything they could have tried would be feasible or better And theres always still the possibility that it wouldnt have worked, even if they had tried it In the end, spanking did work, though Idk

adjl posted...

Competent experimental design minimizes that possibility to enough of an extent that they can much more credibly say "spanking is the most likely causal variable here" than you can say "well maybe there was just something else you didn't notice in all of those different cases."

The problem is that its still hard to tie it to one thing Especially when nobody is usually around the kid 24/7 And even then, it still could end up being hard to prove what caused it