1. Bruni’s main argument is that colleges today are cuddling students and creating a kind of liberalism that cannot survive in the real world. In fact, he calls it illeberalism and says that it is actually dangerous to the world. He argues that by protecting the student’s from divergent views, the colleges are doing a disservice to them and the country. Quoting Van Jones, he asserts that students need to be strong. They need to be offended and that will teach them how to counter arguments with reason and information. He says that the students at Middleberry missed an excellent opportunity to present a coherent rebuttal to Murray’s point of view.
2. The most effective letter in the collection is the one by Kent Chasson who says that …show more content…
The chart shows a clear case of confirmation bias. When one receives a phone call, he or she might or might not have been thinking about the caller. If he or she was thinking about the caller, the brain will register that as remarkable. Many people would even call that a manifestation of psychic ability. However, they forget the times they were thinking about the caller and he or she did not call; when they were not thinking about the caller and he or she called; or when they were not thinking about the caller and he or she did not call. The brain remembers the relatively few coincidences.
2. The illusory correlation that anti-vaccine proponents use to link autism with vaccines is to assume a relationship between the provision of more vaccines and an increase in cases of autism. As medical science has developed, the sector has discovered new vaccines and added them to the regimen. That has coincided with an increase in the number of people diagnosed with autism. The anti-vaccine people look at the two statistics and assume that there is a relationship. They do not consider factors that affected both of the occurrences separately and independent of each other. It is a serious logical fallacy to assume the