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essential reading,
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This review is from: The thinking game: A guide to effective study (Chatham House studies in political thinking)
This book should be the standard text of a course in critical thinking taught in every high school in this country. The citizens of the United States need a book like this as a way of teaching people how to sort out the deluge of opinion and cant that spews out of every orifice of the media. Somebody please get this book back into print!
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Having been forced to use this in a college course, I can say that this is perhaps the worst college text I have ever seen. Meehan's pseudo-scientific breakdown of decisions into different factors would have been laughable had I not been assigned his questions, which simply asked us to summarize topic sentence of various paragraphs. Indeed the greatest irony is that a book on critical thinking asked no questions that actually required critical thinking, only the ability to summarize.
Don't inflict this book on your students.
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The best book on Critical Thinking I have ever seen.,
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This review is from: The Thinking Game: A Guide To Effective Study (Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking) (Paperback)
This is the true use of critical thinking written by a political scientist. It presents a down to earth practical application of critical thinking. The type of thinking we all should use to make inportant choices.
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The physician treating a patient, the farmer cultivating crops, the student preparing a term paper, and the child going to the store for a loaf of bread all have one important thing in common: Each of them is "thinking to purpose," using knowledge to produce a desired result, and using knowledge to determine that the result is desired. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The physician treating a patient, the farmer cultivating crops, the student preparing a term paper, and the child going to the store for a loaf of bread all have one important thing in common: Each of them is "thinking to purpose," using knowledge to produce a desired result, and using knowledge to determine that the result is desired. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary human purposes, normative variables, trouser sales, coaching language, buffer variables, systematic criticism, generating expectations, causal assumption, three primary purposes, reasoned choice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Exercises Review Questions, Fudge Factor, United States, Criticizing Theories, Kansas City New!
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