Barriers To Critical Thinking
Barriers To Critical Thinking
Barriers To Critical Thinking
reasoning
Q: If critical thinking is so important, why is it that uncritical
thinking is so common? Why is it that so many people—
including many highly educated and intelligent people— find
critical thinking so difficult?
1) Group bias is the tendency to see one’s own group (nation, tribe,
sect, peer group, and the like) as being inherently better than others.
Custom and example have a much more persuasive power
than any certitude obtained by way of inquiry. — Rene
Descartes