Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

4.4 Credibility 155 4 Imagine you were an informal jury considering the evidence contained in the article. What would your ve ...

156 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 4.5 Two case studies Case One: Who’s telling the truth? The diagram is a plan of the Manage ...

4.5 Two case studies 157 talk to the driver. They are both normal, unsurprising events in a typical office day, and there is no ...

158 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking him to say they had been in the canteen all the time. So that the manager would think he wa ...

4.5 Two case studies 159 * S-bend: a double bend in a road or track, shaped like the letter S. ** Holding your line: staying on ...

160 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 2 How reliable is Akram as a witness? Consider what he has to say in the light of other ...

4.5 Two case studies 161 drawn, but it would be wrong to interpret Crowe’s apparent smile as a sign of guilt. As for his own def ...

162 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking questions. She could not say what the notes were about specifically. C An intercepted text ...

4.6 Critical thinking and science 163 4.6 Critical thinking and science Science is a highly disciplined form of critical thinkin ...

164 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking Commentary As stated, this is an open discussion, so there is no single right way to tackle ...

4.6 Critical thinking and science 165 typically live with only three or four others, groom for 5 per cent of their day at most. ...

166 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking DOC D The larger a primate’s group size, the longer they spend grooming to cement bonds 20 ...

4.6 Critical thinking and science 167 primates, which are already understood to be at the smarter end of the scale of animal int ...

168 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking large groups, spend much less time grooming than baboons, which form groups of 50 or more. ...

4.6 Critical thinking and science 169 interacting with the wider group, as humans do. That would account for the concentration o ...

170 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking We return now to arguments, but to longer and more challenging texts than you have been wor ...

4.7 Introducing longer arguments 171 Note that these reasons have simply been extracted from the passage and listed. A list like ...

172 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking 4 Are there any assumptions that are not stated in the passage but that the author appea ...

4.7 Introducing longer arguments 173 restricted the options. Like her, you may feel that there really are only two possible outc ...

174 Unit 4 Applied critical thinking badly or misleadingly, in which case it creates a flaw in the reasoning, not a strength. An ...