If you want to work out your critical thinking skills, here are five questions to encourage an objective evaluation: detect any BS and develop your open and fair-minded objective evaluation capabilities; review an article, blog, TED talk or equivalent.
- How strong is the evidence? Can we list how many points are presented to make the case? Consider how strong the evidence is. Do you know if the evidence comes from a reputable source? Does the source have an agenda of their own?
- What is not being told? What evidence is missing? Do you know if any essential details are missing? Is there any detail on an opposing view?
- Test for survivor bias. Survivorship bias occurs when researchers focus on individuals, groups, or cases that have passed a selection process while ignoring those who did not. This bias can lead researchers to form incorrect conclusions because they are only studying a subset of the data.
- What is the opposing view? You can try playing devil's advocate, see what arguments could be made from an opposing view, and look at the validity of supporting evidence.
- Does the logic flow? Be on guard for false logic should you believe A because of when there could be a tenuous link at best between A and B
BTW : This is even more challenging when we have a pre-conceived idea or an emotional investment in our original idea being right. ??
Director at The Mindset Development Group
4 个月BTW : This is even more challenging when we have a pre conceived idea or an emotional investment in our original idea being right ??