Types of Evidence and Critical Thinking

Analytical Summaries Arguments are statements that lead from a premise to a conclusion. There a many types of arguments that we can evaluate on a daily basis. We rarely think about evaluating our own arguments however such thing can be done if we hear closely to what we say and practice determining what type of argument we are stating. There are many parts to an argument but we will now consider the reasons or supportive evidence of two articles. We will determine how the author uses the reasons and evidence to conclude if such argument is true. This journey will lead us to think critical and to put our brain into action. Predictive Probes-Article One In Article one, we meet Ms. Wexler, a 38 year old woman who might have inherited a deadly gene from her mother. This woman struggles to whether she should take this predictive probe test that will determine if she has been living with any in genetic influence disease, including Huntington’s Disease. This article talks about how technology can help to determine many future illnesses and how they can be treated including from birth. This new technology that helps doctors determine future diseases more accurate was able to discover a genetic variation that is in relationship with the Huntington’s Disease. This was found in a test done in a 135 members of a Venezuelan family. Although this disease can be determine around the age of 30, this probe test allowed doctors to find a similarity genetic material that leads to it. This test can help to pre determine many future genetic illnesses, cancers and much more. The downside to this is that society may not like the idea of know what other people have, because such thing can happen.

In this article we find three different types of evidence; experimental, correlative and speculative. The first evidence is experimental. In this article we see that for a long time