I’m confident there really is a correlation between corporal punishment and bad outcomes in life. But this epidemiology must contend with the fact that spanking is currently low status and is mostly practiced by the unfashionable people, who tend to have bad outcomes because they’re low status not because their methods are all bad. (See: paleo diet vs. mainstream health advice)
http://www.bworldonline.com/weekender/content.php?id=54652 relevant
I’m confident there really is a correlation between corporal punishment and bad outcomes in life. But this epidemiology must contend with the fact that spanking is currently low status and is mostly practiced by the unfashionable people, who tend to have bad outcomes because they’re low status not because their methods are all bad. (See: paleo diet vs. mainstream health advice)