Crtical Thinking

EACH OF THESE CLAIMS IS MISTAKEN IN SOME WAY. EXPLAIN WHAT IS WRONG IN EACH CASE

1. Critical thinking has no application in day-to-day life.

2. "Critical thinking" means criticizing other people's thinking.

3. Democracies get along just fine even if people do not think for themselves.

4. Decisions about how I want to live my life do not affect other people.

5. Reflective decision making requires little or no effort.

6. Deciding what to believe or what to do is not possible without critical thinking.

7. If we disagree on something, then one of us is not using critical thinking.

8. Every time I make a judgment I am engaged in critical thinking.

9. It will only undermine authority, if we teach young people to think critically.

10. Reasons are irrelevant; having the right opinion is the only thing that matters.

11. Some people achieve popularity, wealth, and power without appearing to be strong critical thinkers, but you're saying that this can't happen to me.

12. I'm already very confident in my critical thinking ability, so there is no reason for me to go any further in this book.

13. If critical thinking is a mental process, then it will not help me learn the informational content of my other college courses.

14. You only are going to make trouble for yourself by rocking the boat with challenging questions and demands for reasons and evidence. Hey, you got to go along to get along.

15. I'm always disagreeing with authority figures, so I must be a great critical thinker.

16. I like many of the things that my city, county, state and national government does, so I must be a weak critical thinker.

17. It is fine to apply critical thinking in education, business, science, law enforcement, and international problems, but there is no place for critical thinking in religious matters.

18. Looking at the HCTSR, I find that my family and friends do not seem to be very good critical thinkers, so I don't have much of a chance to become one either.

19. If you are a strong critical thinker you will automatically be an ethical person.

20. Once you become adept at engaging problems and decisions using strong critical thinking, it is easy to quit.