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The debate over spanking goes back many years, but the essential question often evades discussion: does spanking actually work? In the short term, yes. You can correct immediate misbehavior with a slap or two on the rear-end or hand. But what about the long-term impact? Can spanking lead to permanent, hidden scars on children years later? 关于打孩子的讨论可以追溯到好多年前，但最本质的问题往往为讨论所回避：打孩子实际上奏效吗？短期来看，是的。你能拍打一两下屁股或者手掌来立即更正孩子们的不守规矩。但长期影响呢？打孩子会在多年后给他们留下永久性的心结么？ On Friday, a sociologist from the University of New Hampshire, Murray Straus, presented a paper at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, in San Diego, suggesting that corporal punishment does leave a long-lasting mark — in the form of lower IQ. Straus, who is 83 and has been studying corporal punishment since 1969, found that kids who were physically punished had up to a five-point lower IQ score than kids who werent — the more children were spanked, the lower their IQ — and that the effect could be seen not only in individual children, but across entire nations. Among 32 countries Straus studied, in those where spanking was accepted, the average IQ of the survey population was lower than in nations where spanking was rare, the researcher says. 在周五，一位来自新罕普什尔大学的社会学家默里?施特劳斯在圣地亚哥的国际会议上就暴力，虐待和精神创伤发表了一篇论文演说，表示提法确实会留下长久的烙印—表现为低下的智商。今年已经83岁的施特劳斯从1969年便开始研究体罚，发现被体罚的孩子在智商得分上比没有被体罚的孩子低了多达5点—孩子被打得越多，智商越低—这种情况不仅发生在个别孩子身上，而是遍及整个国家。在施特劳斯所研究的32个国家当中，在体罚可以被接受的国家，接受调查人口的平均智商要比体罚罕见的国家的要低，研究者如是说。 In the U.S., Straus and his colleague Mallie Paschall of the Pacific Institute for Research and uation, looked at 1,510 children — 806 kids ages 2 to 4, and 704 ages 5 to 9 — and found that roughly three-quarters had endured some kind of corporal punishment in the previous two weeks, according to interviews with the mothers. Researchers measured the childrens IQ initially, then again four years later. Those kids who hadnt been spanked in the initial survey period scored significantly better on intelligence and achievement test