Although Margaret Mead's research on Coming of Age in Samoa was flawed anthropology, at the time it promised to:

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Margaret Mead's research on Coming of Age in Samoa was flawed in terms of methodology, but it promised to resolve the nature-nurture debate of the 1920's against eugenicists, create a role for psychologists to manipulate and shape human nature, and allow social scientists to dream of a new Western civilization that was less neurotic and more well-adjusted (e.g. harmonious, emotionally and sexually open). Therefore, all of these options are correct.

Although Margaret Mead's Research on Coming of Age in Samoa