Critical Thinking

What you'll learn

• Separate a claim from the evidence offered for it and from the assumptions holding it up
• Test a claim by asking what would have to be true for it to hold, and check whether that is the case
• Judge the quality and relevance of a source, and distinguish correlation from causation and anecdote from evidence
• Recognise common cognitive biases and reasoning fallacies in real workplace discussions, including your own
• Challenge an idea constructively — steel-manning it first, questioning the reasoning rather than the person
• State honestly what you do not yet know, with a concrete plan to find out, and treat unchallenged assumptions as latent hazards

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.