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Poll: 65% of Â鶹Éç¹ú²úrespondents say they were spanked as kids — but rarely

The Â鶹Éç¹ú²ú polled 222 readers and asked the question: Were you physically disciplined as a child by a parent or guardian?
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Globally, parenting experts are advocating to make physical punishment illegal.

Most locals were physically punished as kids, though most rarely, according to a new Â鶹Éç¹ú²ú online poll.

The paper polled 222 readers and asked the question: Were you physically disciplined as a child by a parent or guardian?

The poll ran from 4/22/2022 to 4/29/2022. Of the 222 votes, we can determine that 100 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, but rarely 65.00 % local, 57.21 % total    
No 15.00 % local, 16.22 % total    
Yes, often 20.00 % local, 26.58 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Â鶹Éç¹ú²ú readers that are located in Squamish. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 6.54%, 19 times out of 20.

The Â鶹Éç¹ú²ú uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.

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