SOME Ingredients That Are Missing...
Raymond S. Nickerson (1987), an authority on critical thinking, characterizes a good critical thinker in terms of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and habitual ways of behaving. Here are some of the characteristics of such a thinker:
• uses evidence skillfully and impartially
• distinguishes between logically valid and invalid inferences
• suspends judgment in the absence of sufficient evidence to support a decision
• understands the difference between reasoning and rationalizing
• sees similarities and analogies that are not superficially apparent