the previous episodes had some interesting things about the parents' reactions to the tasks etc.
But this week is awful. The experiments are utterly unscientific, just little anecdotes, and full of holes in terms of controlled experiments - and people watching then think it's science.
They tell us what 'science' has says, and then when the children conform to that, they act like it's proved something, but when they don't, they don't make much of a deal about it, just saying that maybe things are changing.
They don't explain how well the original 'research' was done that any of the findings come from.
And it completely conflates stereotypes, supposedly innate behaviour, social contagion in the tasks, etc etc. and just makes it seem like they are proving inborn differences between the boys and girls.
The pageant stuff was awful too - the parents, judges, everyone, and none of them seemed to see the problem. They seemed to believe that it was truly giving her more opportunities and confidence etc, despite it being so superficial. Really sad to see how much of her life was taken over by the pageants, and how unnatural it all was.