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Spanking Data analysis
By: WenseslaoD Date: March 1, 2019, 11:23 pm
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I was practicing and doing a bit of data-mining with a program
I'm learning to use at University, and I thought suddenly "It
will be really great to do this with something I'm interested
on." I searched for some open data about corporal punishment and
the only thing I got was a Harsh-discipline of children database
from Unicef. It's not that great, but it's something.
Running a simple analysis I discovered some interesting stuff
For example:
In Mexico (my country) richest kids are more strictly raised
than poorest kids.
In Arabic countries it's pretty balanced through economic
position
In some Eastern Europe countries the counter flips to poorest
being more harshly disciplined.
As you can expect, boys are disciplined more than girls. And in
rural more than in urban. Etc...
I've always dreamed with having access to accurate data about
real domestic corporal punishment. But it's pretty difficult to
obtain. Is not that you can go around asking people about this.
�What are your thoughts about this? �Do you know about any
accurate databases, etc?
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Re: Spanking Data analysis
By: db105 Date: March 2, 2019, 5:55 am
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I'm not sure what a harsh-discipline database is. Is it a record
of the number of possible child abuse cases that get to the
courts or to CPS? If so, I'm not sure they are representative of
actual numbers, since it's possible that for some social classes
there's less chance of the situation being reported to the
authorities.
Anyway, for real data maybe the best source could be scientific
papers? I'm calling them scientific although, as I have said in
other thread, I have my doubts about the scientific value of
many social sciences papers.
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Re: Spanking Data analysis
By: WenseslaoD Date: March 2, 2019, 6:43 am
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You made valid points, but according to them violent discipline
is defined as from constantly yelling to violent physical
punishment (physical abuse). I know is not the that perfect,
just an approximation of reality. And although social sciences
are not as perfect as the technical ones, collection of data
follows a method and is better than nothing.
Greetings
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Re: Spanking Data analysis
By: Jack Date: March 2, 2019, 9:16 am
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I have been following discussions and studies about spanking
since I took a sociology class in 84 or 85. The problem is that
most studies are done to prove a point, not to learn something.
If you dig deeply enough into most studies, they aren't about
spanking at all; they study 'corporal punishment', which is
defined as anything from a firm pat on the bottom to killing the
kid.
Something we've discussed again and again at this and the
previous forum is that the discrepancies in results, and the
fact that alternative punishments often have similar results,
suggests that it has more to do with the parenting style -
whether calm, supportive, and explanatory or yelling,
threatening, and unyielding - than with the method of correction
used.
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