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GENB 6350
Critical Thinking – Higher level of understanding problems, not necessarily dealing with the symptoms, but the actual problem at hand.
- How you focus on the issue, what is the problem? o Leading to the solution to the issue/problem
- Doing away with the assumptions and building on facts o Bob’s book – Assumptions (A guess without support)
• Leading to a possibility of being right or wrong
• We assume problems, and not plan contingencies
• Handing off the assignment example in book
• External factors that cause problems happen “all the time”
• Leading to Ask questions to dissolve assumptions
• Questions bring about facts, clarifying effects
• Barrier holding out on the individual
• Assume nothing, and utilize on the facts given
• Stratic Method – Focus your answer by asking more questions, this refines the ideas and the facts, which narrows it downs
• When we fail to ask questions:
• I don’t know what the problem is
• Which leads to making assumptions to what may be the problem
- Guiding to Values (personal) o A format to help with the conflict of being pervasive of your own values
Critical Thinking exercise
The following short quiz was developed by Anderson consulting worldwide to test critical thinking.
1. How do you put a giraffe into your refrigerator?
a. Open the door put it in, close
2. How do you put an elephant into your refrigerator?
a. Open the door, take the giraffe out, put the elephant in, close the door
3. The lion king is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
a. Elephant, he is in the fridge
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
a. Cross it, the animals are at the conference
What do you know, What do you not know, and what do you build on?
- This is how you solve
Do they have July 4th in England? Yes, because it is a physical
How many birthdays does the average man have? 1
Critical Thinking – Higher level of understanding problems, not necessarily dealing with the symptoms, but the actual problem at hand.
- How you focus on the issue, what is the problem? o Leading to the solution to the issue/problem
- Doing away with the assumptions and building on facts o Bob’s book – Assumptions (A guess without support)
• Leading to a possibility of being right or wrong
• We assume problems, and not plan contingencies
• Handing off the assignment example in book
• External factors that cause problems happen “all the time”
• Leading to Ask questions to dissolve assumptions
• Questions bring about facts, clarifying effects
• Barrier holding out on the individual
• Assume nothing, and utilize on the facts given
• Stratic Method – Focus your answer by asking more questions, this refines the ideas and the facts, which narrows it downs
• When we fail to ask questions:
• I don’t know what the problem is
• Which leads to making assumptions to what may be the problem
- Guiding to Values (personal) o A format to help with the conflict of being pervasive of your own values
Critical Thinking exercise
The following short quiz was developed by Anderson consulting worldwide to test critical thinking.
1. How do you put a giraffe into your refrigerator?
a. Open the door put it in, close
2. How do you put an elephant into your refrigerator?
a. Open the door, take the giraffe out, put the elephant in, close the door
3. The lion king is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
a. Elephant, he is in the fridge
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
a. Cross it, the animals are at the conference
What do you know, What do you not know, and what do you build on?
- This is how you solve
Do they have July 4th in England? Yes, because it is a physical
How many birthdays does the average man have? 1