a wooden spoon is not soft; nor is a belt. these leave painful welts and bruises. use of these have been constituted as regular ol’ child abuse for a long time

Cambridge is not representative of Massachusetts as a whole. your data will be skewed all sorts of ways.

there is no useful info your pulling from the people voting? no age bracket, where they/their gaurdians grew up, the socioeconomic level they grew up in, etc