Developing Critical Thinking Distinguishing between fact‚ hypothesis and opinion. Facts are truths and realities‚ and what evidence exists to prove. Hypotheses are theories or ideas which need to be tested by academic enquiry. Opinion is personal‚ based on impressions‚ experience and perhaps limited research – you can’t demonstrate opinions objectively. INTRODUCTION AC 1.1 There have been many famous thinkers‚ Rodin cast a statue as “The Thinker” meant to represent Philosophy and Renee Descartes
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Stages of Critical Thinking Stages of Critical Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking‚ describing how to move from each stage to the next‚ and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. |Stages of critical thinking |How to move to the next stage |Obstacles to moving to the next stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking to identify problems |Deceiving
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Ethical Decision Making Management 334 March 22‚ 2007 Ethical Decision Making Halliburton is a corporate giant in the world and in the oil industry. Halliburton is notorious for their poor legal‚ ethical‚ and social responsibilities. Because of these poor ethical practices‚ many organizations have tightly watched Halliburton’s business practices. The company has suffered because of their wrongdoing. Due to this scandalous behavior‚ criminal investigations that later led to indictments
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Management skills in a critical world This new job turned out to be an exciting opportunity to expand my knowledge by operating a business. This business apparently has some issues that require critical thinking skills to help resolve. We will identify and work to solve the problems through the use of the tools and techniques of decision-making. Once complete‚ we will have a clear picture of the problem‚ the associated risks and expected outcome that will hopefully lead to a successful achievement
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Critical Thinking Critical thinking is a useful tool in everyday life and can assist in major decision making process in one’s business choices. Thinking in a critical may come easier to some than others simply because of the exposure to making decisions under high stress or just making choices to complete tasks. What is Critical Thinking? As stated by Edward Glaser critical thinking is as follows “The ability to think critically‚ as conceived in the volume‚ involves three things: An attitude
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I. STATEMENT/RECOGNITION OF DECISION REQUIREMENT/PROBLEM Facts of the Case Pinnacle is a small‚ publicly held Indiana-based machine tool company which is currently losing market shares due to aggressive pricing which have an impact on its profit margin. Don Anglos‚ Pinnacle’s CEO‚ heard a credible rumor that a chief competitor of Pinnacle is planning a hostile takeover of Hoilman‚ Inc. Don Anglos has to decide whether Pinnacle should attempt to acquire Hoilman‚ Inc.‚ a company known for
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Decision Making Tool Introduction Decision-making is whereby an individual makes a choice from among several available options. The decision that is made has to be logical so that benefits can be derived from the decision (Nutt and Wilson 7). Personal decision making topic The topic selected is one that many international university students face today‚ the topic for this decision making process is “ to go to school or not” this decision is critical since it highly shapes
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Critical Thinking and Ethics TaShika Brown ETH/316 February 21‚ 2015 Dr. Deborah Hauck Critical Thinking and Ethics In a discussion of ethics‚ critical thinking may not be the first term that comes to mind‚ unless opposing. However in some ways‚ critical thinking can the foundation‚ from which an ethical decision is made. This paper will explain the relationship between critical thinking and ethics‚ how the principles and rules of critical thinking are applicable to ethical reasoning
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Eth/316 Critical Thinking Scenario 1/11/1015 The skills that you cultivate as a critical thinker are intended to help you think your way through all of life’s situations. One of the most challenging and complex of life’s areas is moral issues and decisions. Every day of your life you make moral choices‚ decisions that reflect your own core moral compass. Often we are not aware of the deeper moral values that drive our choices‚ and we may even be ignorant to the fact that the choices we are making have
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Pitfalls and Limitations of Decision Making Heuristics and Biases: ‘People rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.’ (Kahneman et. al‚ 1974) Heuristics are cognitive shortcuts or ‘rules of thumb’ used to simplify the decision making process. Heuristics result in good decisions and their main asset is that they save time. Most of the heuristics are used by people with specific
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