Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K...
by epicureanideal on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:54PM
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But let's acknowledge the truth that there are plenty of people who really don't think critically. Certainly some people will label others as "not thinking critically" when they really just think differently, but let's agree the former category does exist, and it's not a small population.
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Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K...
by spamizbad on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:26PM
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But most people do think critically. Have you considered this phenomenon to simply be shared or group cognition (also something nearly everyone experiences), rather than a lack of critical thinking skills?
Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K...
by epicureanideal on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:32PM
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I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about most people thinking critically. I don't have anything other than personal experience to justify my position and a quick Google search wasn't able to turn up any convincing studies.
Group cognition (from a quick skim of a Wikipedia article about it) doesn't seem to justify lack of individual critical thinking though. It seems to be more like a term to describe a process, like "memes" and "idea viruses". It doesn't substitute for individual critical thinking.