Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking - Browne, M. Neil, 1944-; Keeley, Stuart M., 1941- (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007)
11. Are the statistics deceptive? -- Unknowable and biased statistics -- Confusing averages -- Concluding one thing, proving another -- Deceiving by omitting information -- Risk statistics and omitted information -- Summary -- Practice exercises -- 12. What significant information is omitted? -- The benefits of detecting omitted information -- The certainty of incomplete reasoning -- Questions that identify omitted information -- The importance of the negative view -- Omitted information that remains missing -- Missing information and your own writing and speaking -- Practice exercises -- 13. What reasonable conclusions are possible? -- Assumptions and multiple conclusions -- Dichotomous thinking : impediment to considering multiple conclusions -- Two sides or many? -- Searching for multiple conclusions -- Productivity of if-clauses -- Alternative solutions as conclusions -- The liberating effect of recognizing alternative conclusions -- All conclusions are not created equal -- Summary -- Practice exercises -- 14. Practice and review -- Question checklist for critical thinking -- Asking the right questions : a comprehensive example -- What are the issue and conclusion? -- What are the reasons? -- What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- What are the value conflicts and assumptions? -- What are the descriptive assumptions? -- Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? -- How good is the evidence? -- Are there rival causes? -- Are the statistics deceptive? -- What significant information is omitted? -- What reasonable conclusions are possible? -- Final word -- The tone of your critical thinking -- Strategies for effective critical thinking -- Index
Keywords: Criticism; Critical thinking