How Bias Influences Critical Thinking
Aleisha Bunton
July 24, 2013
CRT/205
How Bias Influences Critical Thinking? It determines how bias is going to influence critical thinking because there are different types of bias. In the last and most argument that I had recently was about when I bought my van. I did not think much about it because it was coming from my husband’s friend that he has known for many years. My husband and I went to our friend’s house to look at this van because we needed room for all our kids. It was a belief bias that came to the conclusion of what we were buying the van. We believed that there was nothing wrong with it and that we could trust him to not lie to us about it. In the long run, it was a bad idea and we should of test drove it and looked at
it a lot longer before we decided to jump right into buying it. We just needed a vehicle and we did not think about it at all. We just thought okay, he is our friend and we could believe that he would not mess us over because he knew we had to have a reliable vehicle for our children. The belief bias is about having a tendency to evaluate reasoning of how believable the conclusion seems. (17) That is what I used for a bias that came to my argument about the vehicle that I bought from our friends. It influenced me by letting me not to think about the decision of buying a vehicle. I would of not of did that if he was not a friend and knew that I could not trust him? If I would have gone to a car lot, I would have had that argument for a week or two before I jumped into buying that vehicle. I would of looked at all the facts about the vehicle, I would of test drove it, and I would of made sure there with nothing wrong with it. If I would of did that in this last time buying my van, then I would not be in the situation that I am right now about having to buy another vehicle.
Bibliography
17, c. 1. (n.d.).
July 24, 2013
CRT/205
How Bias Influences Critical Thinking? It determines how bias is going to influence critical thinking because there are different types of bias. In the last and most argument that I had recently was about when I bought my van. I did not think much about it because it was coming from my husband’s friend that he has known for many years. My husband and I went to our friend’s house to look at this van because we needed room for all our kids. It was a belief bias that came to the conclusion of what we were buying the van. We believed that there was nothing wrong with it and that we could trust him to not lie to us about it. In the long run, it was a bad idea and we should of test drove it and looked at
it a lot longer before we decided to jump right into buying it. We just needed a vehicle and we did not think about it at all. We just thought okay, he is our friend and we could believe that he would not mess us over because he knew we had to have a reliable vehicle for our children. The belief bias is about having a tendency to evaluate reasoning of how believable the conclusion seems. (17) That is what I used for a bias that came to my argument about the vehicle that I bought from our friends. It influenced me by letting me not to think about the decision of buying a vehicle. I would of not of did that if he was not a friend and knew that I could not trust him? If I would have gone to a car lot, I would have had that argument for a week or two before I jumped into buying that vehicle. I would of looked at all the facts about the vehicle, I would of test drove it, and I would of made sure there with nothing wrong with it. If I would of did that in this last time buying my van, then I would not be in the situation that I am right now about having to buy another vehicle.
Bibliography
17, c. 1. (n.d.).