re: Spanking raises risks of anti-social behavior, 50-year study finds

Nice

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Saban

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Notoriously antisocial.

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So he mentions that it's a meta-analysis and your refutation is that studies are often not well replicated? Your response makes no sense considering one of the major advantages of a meta-analysis is to address that very issue.

Just a weird response.

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by pointing out that this was a meta-analysis, you are making it sound like they gave equal weight to the results from all those prior studies. I assure you they did not.

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Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor
Associate Professor of Social Work

Current research focuses on the way in which parenting behaviors, like the use of physical punishment, or parental expressions of emotional warmth, have an effect on child outcomes like aggression, antisocial behavior, anxiety and depression, and how these dynamics play out across contexts, neighborhoods, and cultures.

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Elizabeth Gershoff
Faculty Research Associate — Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Developmental psychologist who studies how parenting generally and discipline in particular affect children’s development. She is also interested in associations between children’s exposures to various forms of violence (from parents, communities, and terrorism) and their mental health and risk behaviors.

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According to their own bios, these two researchers came locked and loaded on how violence (spanking) negatively effects a childs future behavior. So any "meta-analysis" was just them picking and choosing what already supported their bias beliefs

Like I said upwards of 90% of academic studies (even meta-analysis) are being found to be invalid due to bias, mathematical errors, inadequate peer review, inability to replicate, etc. This study is no exception