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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ish who wrote (66843)12/16/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
The problem with research on corporal punishment on kids is that researchers can't ethically set up prospective double-blind studies. They can't randomly select a pool of families, and tell one set to spank, and one set not to spank, and then tally up the results at the end of the study. It's just not ethical. So all they can do is interview parents who spank, and parents who don't spank, and then there is the unavoidable problem of selection bias. Without setting up a random, double-blind study, you can never say with complete authority that the pool of parents who spank don't differ significantly from the pool of parents who don't spank. But there's simply no way around it.

Ethical researchers have to work with what they have.
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