# What does Münsterberg's Chapter XI (1916) say about children and young people as viewers, and what support does he give for it?

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1916 argument, unmeasured. He says the 'young mind' may suffer from rapid contrasts between farce and passionate romance, that boys and girls shown glamorous crime feel sure they would escape, that youth (and the untrained) follow instructive films poorly (a child 'grasps very little' of a factory), and that French comedies once 'poisoned youth'. The only number about the young is a prominent criminologist's claim that 85 per cent of investigated juvenile crime was traced to films, which he calls 'probably a strong exaggeration' without giving another figure or a source. {nyoung} of the 30 graded claims concern the young; none names a source.

1916 argument, unmeasured. He says the 'young mind' may suffer from rapid contrasts between farce and passionate romance, that boys and girls shown glamorous crime feel sure they would escape, that youth (and the untrained) follow instructive films poorly (a child 'grasps very little' of a factory), and that French comedies once 'poisoned youth'. The only number about the young is a prominent criminologist's claim that 85 per cent of investigated juvenile crime was traced to films, which he calls 'probably a strong exaggeration' without giving another figure or a source. {nyoung} of the 30 graded claims concern the young; none names a source.

Curator qualifications: 85% figure is an unnamed quotation the author himself doubts.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 argument, unmeasured. He says the 'young mind' may suffer from rapid contrasts between farce and passionate romance, that boys and girls shown glamorous crime feel sure they would escape, that youth (and the untrained) follow instructive films poorly (a child 'grasps very little' of a factory), and that French comedies once 'poisoned youth'. The only number about the young is a prominent criminologist's claim that 85 per cent of investigated juvenile crime was traced to films, which he calls 'probably a strong exaggeration' without giving another figure or a source. {nyoung} of the 30 graded claims concern the young; none names a source. · locator: ch. XI · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15383/pg15383.txt

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