While doing my home work for my new Environmental Science class, I came across a relatively short but well written passage about Critical Thinking.
Personally, I find this information to be beneficial on more levels then just doing the review question in the text book. Critical thinking is a useful skill had has saved me from problems a few times, and any one can use it to their benefit as well.
So, I will type it up and share it with everyone else. Keep in mind that this is not my writing, and I have no rights to it, but rather I am directly quoting from "Environmental Science, A study of Interrelationships" by Enger and Smith.
Its written rather thickly, so if any one wants parts of it explained, I'll do my best to help. (Being the geek that I am.)
Also, I'd like to dedicate this thread to all the cool scraps of knowledge out there, things you've found to be awesome or helpful, or both.
It doesn't have to be anything geeky, perhaps just something that made you laugh, or taught you something.
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Critical thinking
We live in an age of information. Computer, e-mail, the Internet, CD-ROMs, instant news, and fax machines bring us information more quickly then ever before. A simple search of the internet will provide huge amounts of information. Some of the information has been subjected to scrutiny and is quite valid, some is well-informed opinion, some is naive misinformation, and some is even designed to mislead.
How do we critically evaluate the information we get?
Critical thinking involves a set of skills that helps us to evaluate information, arguments and opinions in a systematic and thoughtful way.
(And my computer just ran out of battery, darnit. This will be finnished later, I promise it.)
