Critical thinking skills

[Beth Benoit]

Title: Critical thinking skills

A little holiday gift for our critical thinking enthusiasts:  the joke voted most popular by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA):

Famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his gruff assistant Doctor Watson pitch their tent while on a camping expedition, but in the middle of the night Holmes nudges Watson awake and questions him.

HOLMES: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

WATSON: I see millions of stars, and if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it is quite likely there are some planets like earth, and if there are a few planets like earth out there might also be life.

HOLMES: Watson, you idiot! Somebody stole our tent.

Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire

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