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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (48168)	5/24/2002 2:56:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

unfortunately, there is a lot of dis-information out there too...most notably in the political realm. Yes, that's so. I think it's more important to have the thinking skills to sift through that stuff rather than having the information to refute it. I take that perspective because there is just too much out there to know everything. It's much more practical and efficient to have the skill set for sifting and sorting. Of course, we're talking here about the relative merits of two things which are both useful. I'm definitely not advocating one at the expense of the other. I just googled "critical thinking" and came up with this idea, which I find creative. <<Most of the freshman and sophomore students in my classes simply do not know how to draw reasonable conclusions from the evidence. At most, they've been taught in high school what to think; few of them know how to think. In an attempt to remedy this problem at my college, I've developed an elective course called "Anthropology and the Paranormal." The course examines the complete range of paranormal beliefs in contemporary American culture, from precognition and psychokinesis to channeling and cryptozoology and everything between and beyond, including astrology, UFOs, and creationism. I teach the students very little about anthropological theories and even less about anthropological terminology. Instead, I try to communicate the essence of the anthropological perspective, by teaching them, indirectly, what the scientific method is all about. I do so by teaching them how to evaluate evidence. I give them six simple rules to follow when considering any claim, and then show them how to apply those six rules to the examination of any paranormal claim.>> csicop.org