Did You See This? "Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs" ... I Think This Is BS

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090925/sc_livescience/childrenwhogetspankedhaveloweriqs

 The argument could be made that the reason they have lower IQs is because their parents have lower IQs. It seems to me that spanking is an outdated method of discipline;beating a child isn't the best way to teach them to do right. I would also suggest that those who do spank their children these days are less educated, less informed and probably of a lower IQ than those who do not spank their kids.

 The fact that their respective IQs go down over a measured period of time could also be indicative of a genetic predisposition to lower IQ scores rather than the impact of spanking.