# Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Elizabeth Cox
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law, History, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_cox_can_you_outsmart_the_college_admissions_fallacy)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by TOGETHER, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott\].

## Lectures

1. [Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/elizabeth_cox_can_you_outsmart_the_college_admissions_fallacy/ebf9818f74bf), 6 min (TED's player)