blatant lie; punishment obviously works, otherwise no one would use it. it's just a didactic local maxima, with suboptimal side effects. much worse things for a child to become than slightly mentally ill.
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RT @sim_kern
I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

Punishment doesn't work.

Like every type, for every age of person. No exceptions. We have over a century of research proving this.

And the younger a kid is, the more devastat…
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