Critical thinking? Are you good at it?

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I always thought that I was, this is something I performed well in at school. I identify with so many Aspie traits and stories but I've found a few that I can't relate to. I guess this is normal, eh? I wonder how much being a woman has to to do with this.

What is Critical Thinking? They spoke about it at school but I never knew what they were talking about.

The way I understand it is that you don't just believe anything you read, or hear. That you take into account who wrote/said it and think about wether what they wrote/ told you is plausible.

wiki - critical thinking

It's not something that come naturally to me.

It's one of my strengths

Thank you.

I wasn't good at it, no. Although, I think it was more the trying to evaluate my findings and write them properly. Teachers never seemed to understand what I was talking about at in my essays.

Critical thinking is a wet dream of rationalisation, imagining there to be some neutral vantage point from which various sources can be neutrally evaluated for credibility, trustworthiness and so on. A setup of critical thinking takes off from a set of more or less naive presuppositions and then goes on a fault-finding spree, with everyone they don't like. All in the name of blessed "criticism".

IRL some people get some don't get to be believed. After the fact we may invent excuses for our mistrust or, in the opposite case, our gullibility, but as for critical thinking, it's a hypocritical fantasy.

I could, of course, be wrong.


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I have a hard time, in that area. Critical thinking doesn't come easy, to me.

I think I'm pretty good at it.

it is something i am good at and consider a strength.
i agree it has nothing to do with the source. if anything one must ignore the source and consider only the information.

In my inner circle, about half are serious skeptics in the fine sense, including yrs trly, CONSTANTLY examining evaluating reexamining testing. Reality check - do I REALLY think enough to believe I might exist?

The other half tend to leap into convictoon like a moth toward a flame. Sometimes they get burned. Othertimes they find the prize in the box that I and the other skeptics never looked for because we were never convinced.

Gender may be a factor - in our group the most dubious are mail, the most hopeful female. But [skeptic that I am] I would not push too hard on that.