Less than 10% of Freshmen proficient in Critical Thinking

[LasMa]

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making choices that will allow them healthy job prospects after graduation

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<p>This may be smart. It’s not critical thinking.</p>

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there are unthinking zombies on every side of the spectrum, thinking they are the enlightened ones and everyone else is an idiot. They just can’t realize that their smug confidence in the absolute truth is just as wrong as those unenlightened ones.

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<p>Are you equating critical thinking with a smug belief that one knows “the absolute truth?” Because that’s not what it is either. Critical thinking, if anything, makes you aware of how much you don’t know. It’s non-critical thinkers who tend to see the world in simplistic, black-and-white terms.</p>