Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
- ISBN-10
- 0130891347
- ISBN-13
- 9780130891341
- Series
- Asking the Right Questions
- Category
- Critical thinking
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Authors
- M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley
Description
The benefit of asking the right questions - What are the issue and the conclusion? - What are the reasons? - Which words or phrases are ambiguous? - What are the value conflicts and assumptions? - What are the descriptive assumptions? - Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? - How good is the evidence : intuition, appeals to authority, and testimonials? - How good is the evidence : personal observation, case studies, research studies, and analogies? - Are there rival causes? - Are the statistics deceptive? - What significant information is omitted? - What reasonable conclusions are possible? - Practice and review -
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- 2019-12-31
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