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Coursera: Get Ready! Think Again: How to Reason and Argue to run again starting Aug 26th!
Critical thinking is the ability to figure out what conclusions you ought to draw from a body of information, and what assumptions someone is making when they draw conclusions from some body of information. This ability is crucial for solving problems that face us everyday (from personal decisions about which job to take or which place to live, to political decisions about which policy to support or which candidate to vote for), and also crucial for understanding how other people are reasoning about those same issues. Duke University’s course Think Again was so wildly popular with every global audience (across all ages and geographies) that we are excited it is running for the 2nd time, starting August 26th. 2 FUN FACTS ABOUT CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS 1. Career Success Critical thinking is necessary for success in some of the most competitive and well-compensated professions, including medicine, law, finance, engineering, science, and statistics. 2. Happiness and Self Est…