Critical thinking? Like listening to all advisers and choosing the one that you believe will work even though it's not the popular choice? Reminds me of the surge.
What did the other guy do? Sided with the masses and admitted he was way wrong, then claimed he'd make the same major mistake again knowing it would be a major mistake. Now that's critical thinking. On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But it's a good list. For me it's > > * always pick the best critical thinker. That would be my > "performance" measure; demonstrated ability at critical thinking. > Which, of course, Bush scores near zero on. > > Oh, and this would be a rough definition from wiki: > > Critical thinking consists of mental processes of discernment, > analysis and evaluation. It includes possible processes of reflecting > upon a tangible or intangible item in order to form a solid judgment > that reconciles scientific evidence with common sense. > > Critical thinking clearly involves synthesis, evaluation, and > reconstruction of thinking, in addition to analysis. > > Critical thinkers gather information from all senses, verbal and/or > written expressions, reflection, observation, experience and > reasoning. Critical thinking has its basis in intellectual criteria > that go beyond subject-matter divisions and which include: clarity, > credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, > significance and fairness. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271752 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
