PCU

Watching PCU we were asked to find one logical fallacy that coincides with this movie. I think that Hasty Generalization is one and this is a conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence. I believe this was one because by watching this movie a person who hasn’t set foot in college would already get bad vibes about it and would think negative because of some of the things portrayed. For example: what college do you know that you walk into there dorm room and they smoking and got cigarette buts all over the place. Also the visiting senior on the first day already got a mental and physical picture of what college life is just by that first day visit. But what he doesn’t realize is that is not how college life really is. So a person watching the movie will think that this is how college life is when it really isn’t. Okay yes, you do have different clubs or organizations trying to promote their causes but not to that extreme. What happened to the studying, hanging out, classroom settings, networking, and etc? That’s what the majority of college is about but that was not portrayed in this movie. All we mainly saw is the negative with the drinking, partying, and etc. Yes there are college students that engage in that type of activity but not all the time. So hasty generalization is the correct logical fallacy because by watching PCU you will get the wrong impression and already have this outlook on college. From that movie it will not be that positive but who will have to actually wait till you get there to realize it’s not as bad as it is portrayed.