Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
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It’s 1990. A prospective student has filed a complaint about Virginia Military institute’s admissions policy that excludes women. The state argues that VMI’s single sex education is an “important governmental objective” and that the exclusion of women from VMI is essential to that objective. Can you spot the problem with this argument? Elizabeth Cox explores the circular reasoning fallacy.
A logical fallacy is an error in thinking that undermines the logic of your argument. Explain why circular reasoning is a logical fallacy.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Elizabeth Cox
- Director Hector Herrera, Pazit Cahlon, TOGETHER
- Narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott
- Storyboard Artist Pazit Cahlon
- Animator Hector Herrera
- Art Director Hector Herrera
- Sound Designer Nick Sewell
- Composer Massassauga
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Anna Bechtol
- Associate Producer Abdallah Ewis
