MAT 143 Lab – Critical Thinking Assessment The exam grades for a MAT 143 midterm exam are given below. The professor is trying to determine if she should curve the grades or not. The professor wishes to find the best measure of center to represent the exam scores so that she can make an informed decision. Consider the various measures of center and scenarios when each would be the best measure of center. What would be the best measure of center and why? Using the best measure of center‚ should
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Week 5 Critical Thinking Questions 1. If economic conditions require you to accept a job that is not exactly what you are aiming for‚ how can you best approach the new job? What are the benefits of doing so? I try to do everything to my best ability. Most people have to go through a few jobs they didn’t want or didn’t particularly care for to get to where they wanted to be. Many top executives recall a time where they had to work at fast food restaurants to pay the bills. By accepting the job you
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between a nuclear family and an extended family? A nuclear family will be just the two parents and their children living in one home‚ as to an extended family is a family where the grandparents or maybe grand kids are living in the home too. Critical Thinking Questions How can families assimilate to a new culture? They can do things like learn the language‚ they can try to join the culture by eating their foods‚ listening to their music. What are some of the problems with stereotypes or cultural
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In the excerpts from “Thinking‚ Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman it talks about how by doing certain tasks your actions can change without you even knowing. This excerpt talks about how the brain reacts to different situations‚ for example‚ “if you saw the word eat you are more likely to word fragment SO_P as soup than as soap”. By seeing the word eat you are more likely to think about food which makes you change your thought process/ it manipulates your mind. The rest of the excerpt is more
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Chapter 2 mostly focuses on the Critical thinking and reading. It starts with a picture with different meaning. We have to think carefully what the picture is trying to say. To be a critical thinker‚ you should be focused on the facts‚ analytic‚ open-minded‚ questioning‚ creative and active. Instead of directly jumping into reading we should first ask questions about the work’s rhetorical context. We should try to understand all the details to fully understand that work. And to do that we should
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this way. The same guy also watched a lot of fantasy cartoons. Therefore cartoons will make you kill your dog. - Appeal to Flattery - Flattery is presented in the place of evidence for accepting a claim. Ex.)Might I say that this is the best Thinking Skills class I’ve ever taken. By the way‚ about those points I need to get an A... - Bandwagon - A threat of rejection by one’s peers( peer pressure) is substituted for evidence in an argument. Ex.) KYLE: Hey ! You may like to listen to
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may have evidence of flammable liquids are collected from where the fire is believed to have started. Any materials collected from a fire scene are put in air-tight containers to prevent the evaporation of any flammable liquid evidence. Critical Thinking Questions What do you think would be the most challenging part of investigating a fire or explosion crime scene? Why? I think the most challenging part of investigating a fire or explosion crime scene would be collecting evidence. This is because
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immigrants who arrived in the masses from Europe. He arrived with nothing and out of nothing built himself up. Houdini fell under the same category as the many entertainers of his period like Charlie Chaplin. However Houdini was much more than a performer he was part magician part illusionist and part unknown. As
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Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your
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elbow. 5. What are two diseases that involve the thyroid gland? Describe each disease. Hypothyroidism- Where the impaired production or distribution of the thyroid hormone. Hyperthyroidism-excessive secretion of the thyroid hormone. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Why do you think so many dogs die from bloat? What factors influence the mortality rate of this disease? Because of how quick they can die with in the first sign of it. 2. Why is veterinary research so important to the diseases in
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