Researching: Images of women in the media set an unrealistic standard that young girls try desperately hard to achieve.
Methodology: Survey teenage girls about the effects of socialization on their self-image.
Test Hypothesis: Ask the subjects to provide height and weight, what they consider themselves (fat, skinny, average etc.), what they could change about themselves if they could, the magazines they like best, which woman celebrity they would like to look like most.
Prediction: Teenage girls will compare themselves to women who either had their bodies surgically altered to attain society’s unrealistic perceptions of perfection, spent thousands of dollars and many hours with the best personal trainers and dieticians, or had their portraits unbelievably photo-shopped [for example, the above cover of Demi Moore, a picture that has been highly publicized lately by those opposed to photo-shop being used on magazine pictures (in this picture, her left hip seems to have vanished)]. Majority of girls surveyed will show signs of low self-image, and think that having a BMI of 22 is the new BMI of 30.
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