Summary of Critical Analysis I
In "The Coding of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt they make the argument that certain developments are leading students to become easily affected by ideas and subjects discussed in class. To support their argument, they mention a series of cases and novels that only convey opinions, and fail to mention statistical evidence. Throughout the critical analysis, I will summarize the major points of the article, give reasoning why Lukianoff and Haidt made a weak argument based on the failure of statistical evidence, and various forms of fallacies. The first weak point that was made is the environment that current college students grew up in is the cause of them being overly sensitive to ideological