Although this video doesn't explain how to critically think all that well, it DOES prove the point that it does matter (which is the title and purpose of the TED Talk for youth-- who usually need convincing and awareness about this topic). I agree with many comments on this video about wanting more on how he suggests we think critically-- It would help us to improve after having an understanding of it being important.
A small percentage of people are born with a natural critical thinking tendency. To those people, watching this video and checking the comments is useful to try to understand that the thinking patterns of others really just cant be improved intuitively, and that most people really do have to have critical thinking skills literally 'taught' to them. Its not stupidity: Its the way the vast majority of human brains work for sime reason.
In complex situations, choose the solution with the fewest steps. That is the correct definition. The other is lazy thinking, which is sort of perfect.
Bart lays out philosophical points about non-critical thinker and the reason that they think badly. If you know about critical thinking; it is a great battle between critical thinkers vs non-critical thinkers.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I mean it started pretty good when he mentioned thinking badly but then it simply went no where. No definitions, no talk about critical thinking barriers or determining credibility or anything along those lines. Just the basic don't believe everything you hear speech. How disappointing...
He needs to be more of a critical thinker with his research. William Miller set the dates, and Ellen White didn't get any visions until after the dates failed. And Bart Millar quoted the wrong dates. So unprofessional.
something somewhat related to this, but carried much farther and broader, has the most profound implications for all humanity you can possibly imagine that impacts the very foundations of civilization which is built on culture
this guy is great, it's good to know theirs still people like this in the world. Unfortunately common sense is lost on some people like I don't know cough right wingers cough
In my opinion, he is confusing "critical thinking" with "commonsense". Every one of those misguided people and situations of which he have mentioned was due to: lack of commonsense. Critical thinking requires much higher-level thinking abilities and skills than commonsense does.
This was a very dry attempt at a clever comedy routine.. This was extremely pessimistic at best and only very loosely related to critical thinking much in the same way that talking about puddles addresses weather... less so, really.. I'm extremely disappointed..
He lost me at four minutes in. Not an effective presentation. Poor intro and rambling on about Italian con men and snake oil., etc. Get to the point or get off the stage!
If you were good at critical thinking you would voted for Trump. America needs to change the status quo where politicians are not accountable to people.
Let's do some real critical thinking. Notice your assumption--that those who voted for Donald Trump could not have possibly done any critical thinking, else they naturally would not have voted for him. Let's explore that critically. How do you actually know that? Are you familiar with the voting habits of millions of voters? Can you not imagine perspectives that would have found him a better choice? Have you spoken with anyone who has voted for him and asked why? Are you sure you're thinking through this objectively? Are you engaged in emotional reasoning rather than empirical reasoning? What do you actually know about all of the candidates? How did you vote? Did you do a compare and contrast? Read any of the works from the candidates? Did you set up criteria that was important to you? Or did you vote from the gut? Vote based on a feeling? Just how much thought did you honestly put into voting? You see, critical thinking is a process. A process of questions that explore reasoning. It's aim is to gather better insight than you had before.