Critical Thinking and Decision Making.

Abstract Is there a relationship between critical thinking and decision making? In order to answer that question they both must be defined. Arons (1985) defines critical thinking as: "asking questions. (How do we know? What is the evidence?), being aware of gaps in knowledge, distinguishing between fact and conjecture, distinguishing between an idea and the name of that idea and providing definitions, looking for (hidden) assumptions, performing hypothetico-deductive reasoning, knowing inductive and deductive reasoning, intellectual self-reliance, …

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