American Beauty Pageants

That data in the film seems to confirm the conclusion of the film. The conclusion of the film seems to say that people can be taught to do and believe anything. The belief of eugenics was used to spread feelings of racism and negative thoughts. It was the main factor in bringing about beautiful pageants. Perfect baby contest started popping up at state fairs. Children that had every trait that judges wanted were the winners. They even had perfect family contest. The family was subject to a battery of test. The winning family was always a well to do white family. They were teaching the American public what the “perfect” family looked like. Subconsciously they were telling American people that only white people were “perfect”. Perfection is a

Even though I don’t agree with his conclusions I would like to see his data. I would like to see how he came to this conclusion.
Of course the data presented in this film is not perfect. Most if not all of the people being interviewed seem to be believers in behaviorism. This causes a one sided view. When they talk about experiments and studies that accorded in the past you only get bits and pieces. Obviously there is not enough time to talk about every experiment in extreme detail. If you want to judge each experiment you would have to read more about each one.
When they spoke of Dr. Watson’s experiments with babies they only listed one baby by name. Albert seemed to be the center of his studies. Even though I agree with his findings I find this a bit troubling. If he only manipulated the fears of one child then his experiment is flawed. It list that he worked with thousands of children but it doesn’t list the experiments he did with them. Albert could just be a rare example of a child born without natural fears. Perhaps he was only using this child to get the results he wanted. I would like to read or see more about the studies that he did with the other children. For me to feel that his findings were validated he would need a large amount of children who reacted in the same way as