Critical Thinking in Everyday Life 2012

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life An Essay by Robert Guzman UPR Aguadilla Every single day we are bombarded with tons of ‘information’. We have television, the Internet, smart phones, radio broadcasts and the printed media. We have politicians,... More

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life An Essay by Robert Guzman UPR Aguadilla Every single day we are bombarded with tons of ‘information’. We have television, the Internet, smart phones, radio broadcasts and the printed media. We have politicians, sales ads, preachers and everyday acquaintances, all competing for our attention with all sorts of claims. Now given this daily dose of information overload how do we separate the good from the bad? How do we know what to believe and what to reject or at least question? Easy, all you need is to have your very own BS detector, a mental device that will allow you to evaluate the quality of the things that people say. It will require you to take some time to memorize but once installed it will serve you well for years to come. We will use the format developed by Professor James Lett, the famous FiLCHeRS. Each consonant in this word represents one of the elements of the BS detector. The first one is falsifiability. Less