LOGICAL and CRITICAL THINKING

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LOGICAL and CRITICAL THINKING

• Analyzing Team Information

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Evaluating Information Critically

• Norms for Critical Analysis
• Quality of data is everyones responsibility
• Analysis is a collaborative activity
• Analysis is objective, not personal
• Disagreement is part of cooperative analysis
• The team owns all the information

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Evaluating (contd.)

• Criteria for Analysis
• The informations source
• Expertise
• Qualifications
• Reputation
• Habits of communication
• Search
• Justice
• Preference for public vs. private motivations
• Respect for dissent
• Ethical inferences
• The information itself
• Internet infos virtual locations

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Reasoning Logically

• Data dont prove people do
• Careful, objective, cooperative analysis is key
• Make rational decisions
• Objectivity leads to ethical decisions

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Reasoning (contd.)

• Drawing Conclusions
• Analyzing warrants
• Identifying reservations
• Qualifying conclusions
• Examining complete arguments

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Reasoning (contd.)

• Testing Reasoning
• Inductive reasoning
• Deductive reasoning
• Cause-and-effect reasoning

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Reasoning (contd.)

• Fallacious reasoning
• hasty generalizations
• false analogies
• false dilemmas
• special pleading
• red herrings
• circumlocution
• appeal to authority
• ad hominem

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Examining Assumptions and Values

• Nature and Effects
• Cultural and Gender Influences