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Critical Thinking
Telling an argument from a confident voice. How to check a claim, spot the common tricks, and change your mind without losing your nerve.
5lessons
10quiz questions
5exercises
What you'll be able to do
- Separate how something is said from whether it is true.
- Ask the questions that make a statistic mean something.
- Recognise the common tricks, including your own.
- Recognise the biases that operate on you specifically.
- Apply this at work and change your mind well.
Course content
- 1 Confidence is not evidence Separate how something is said from whether it is true.
- 2 Reading a number honestly Ask the questions that make a statistic mean something. Sign in to open
- 3 The moves people make in arguments Recognise the common tricks, including your own. Sign in to open
- 4 Your own thinking is the hard part Recognise the biases that operate on you specifically. Sign in to open
- 5 Using it without becoming unbearable Apply this at work and change your mind well. Sign in to open