Sunday, March 12, 2017

TOW #22 - Selling Tickets Using Deductive Reasoning



                These past couple weeks everyone who was a part of the spring musical in any shape or form has been trying to sell their tickets. This is mainly because if members of cast and crew don’t sell all their tickets they’re forced to buy them which means some people will be paying from anywhere between $10 - $300. To try and sell their tickets many members attempted to use deductive reasoning. They chose deductive over inductive because inductive was more factual based and most of them just didn’t feel that it would be as successful.
                The most popular way members tried to sell tickets was by milking the fact that the musical was a children’s show. Their major premise was mostly the fact that musicals were a fun family event that people would enjoy. They used the original movie of The Little Mermaid for most of their minor premise evidence, citing the fact that most children loved the original movie so then in conclusion they would also like the musical version of it. They also tried to persuade people to buy tickets by using the fact that during intermission cast members would be on stage for pictures. For this they often cited the amusement park of Disney World for their minor claim, where they claimed that children enjoyed meeting the characters there so then in conclusion they’re children would also enjoy meeting high school students dressed up as the characters as well.  Some members also tried to use the guilt card as their major premise by saying that family members are required to support other family members in their extracurricular activities. Then the minor for this was that they were members of the company so then in conclusion they’re family members had to buy tickets because they’re required to support them in their interests.
                These forms of deductive reason worked fairly well, mostly everyone was able to sell all their required before the show. Only a few people had to try and scalp them at the door.

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