Critical Thinking vs Making Assumptions

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Critical thinking takes consistent behavior in asking the right questions about the subject. In my life, I have come across people who ask many questions and some people who “go with the flow” and believe everything they hear because it is spoken with some sort of authority. Assumptions can be damaging to relationships and without critical thinking and communication, our thought process can assume the wrong idea entirely. When I speak with someone who is a critical thinker, they can be so convincing that it is often challenging to decide what the correct conclusions are. To have inferences is to reach a conclusion on the basis of evidence and reasoning through critical thinking and asking the right questions.

Critical Thinking and Assumptions

Critical thinking takes consistent behavior in asking the right questions about the subject. In my life, I have come across people who ask many questions and some people who “go with the flow” and believe everything they hear because it is spoken with some sort of authority.

Critical thinking is that mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. (Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2013)

Critical thinking has not been as prominent in my life as I suppose it should be, many times in my life when speaking on a subject, I have been told to keep my mouth shut and that I did not know what I was talking about. Someone else has always had a “better” opinion, so I usually do not have too many “ideas” on my own. A self-esteem issue that I know I need to w...

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...sking the right questions, never taking what someone says as truth just because they say it. To be inquisitive and ask the right questions is to gain knowledge and to not have false beliefs of about the world around you.

References

Browne, M. N., & Keeley, S. (2012). Asking the Right Questions. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.

Colorado State University-Global Campus. (2014, 4 01). Critical Reasoning. Retrieved 04 19, 2014, from Module 1:Asking the Right Questions: https://csuglobal.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-1385298-dt-content-rid-7144821_2/courses/KEY_HUM101/courseModules_spring2014a/hum101_1/hum101_1.html

Foundation for Critical Thinking. (2013, 01 01). Our Concept and Definition of Critical Thinking. Retrieved 04 16, 2014, from Foundation for Critical Thinking: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-concept-and-definition-of-critical-thinking/411

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