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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Sun Nov 29, 2020, 01:34 AM Nov 2020

How to Detect Baloney

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K&R Blue Owl Nov 2020 #1

we need to teach critical thinking. pansypoo53219 Nov 2020 #2

Starting in Kindergarten. KS Toronado Nov 2020 #5

Recommended FakeNoose Nov 2020 #3

An excellent presentation on the principles any critical thinking course must address. Nitram Nov 2020 #4

Blue Owl

(50,259 posts)

1. K&R

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Sun Nov 29, 2020, 01:48 AM

Nov 2020

Carl Sagan rules!

pansypoo53219

(20,955 posts)

2. we need to teach critical thinking.

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Sun Nov 29, 2020, 08:29 AM

Nov 2020

KS Toronado

(17,147 posts)

5. Starting in Kindergarten.

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Sun Nov 29, 2020, 01:33 PM

Nov 2020

FakeNoose

(32,579 posts)

3. Recommended

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Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:33 PM

Nov 2020

Nitram

(22,765 posts)

4. An excellent presentation on the principles any critical thinking course must address.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2020, 01:27 PM

Nov 2020

A little light, perhaps, on how to evaluate the reliability of a source, but that would be an entire course in its own right. He did hint at how to do that with his suggestion that we should look for sources that disagree with the proposition at issue. I call that triangulation. If I read three or more well-written articles that approach an issue from different perspectives, I usually can draw what I think are valid conclusions about the actual facts of a case.

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