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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (66852)12/16/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
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

There are many things which we claim to be true without needing to set up double blind studies. For example, posit the question "is it true or false that wives who shoot their husbands in the heads five times with 38 caliber or larger handguns tend to injure them more seriously than wives who throw nerf balls at their husbands? We can't set up an experiment to have wives shoot their husbands, but I think very few researchers, ethical or not, would have much trouble answering the question "beyond any reasonable doubt, it's true."

The spanking issue is certainly not as obvious as this one. But the proposition that you have to have a double blind study to have resonable certainty about the consequences of human behaviors is a fallacy.
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