On re-reading, I see I got a bit tangled up on the 2x2 table comment
(Why do I always find these things _after_ I send them?)
What I meant was that we need the following kind of
information:
spanked not spanked
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bad end
good end
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In particular, we need to know whether the percentage of those spanked
wno came to a bad end is any greater than the percentage of those
not-spanked who came to a bad end. And they'd better match the spanked
and the non-spanked pretty good beforehand too. I'd bet that the
non-spankers tend to be better educated and in a higher socio-economic
bracket (where they learn not to spank from the college psychology
courses they take from us). And that doesn't even touch the
genetic/family environment causation issue.
-Stephen
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