Critical Thinking

Introduction
Are critical thinking and decision making related to one another? Are they inseparable, or are they only brought together by those who see the value of doing so? Critical thinking is generally viewed as a process which will yield an outcome (a decision, belief, or action) as a result of careful thought, consideration and evaluation. It is thought to exist on the other side of the continuum of impulse and has a tendency to correspond with the value and/or importance of the outcome being sought.
We may not think critically about what to wear when we wake up on a Saturday morning, but we may think critically about buying a house – again, corresponding to the importance and/or weight of the decision. Yet, even within those two examples, the critical thinking process is used at different levels. While we may not think too much about what to wear on Saturday morning, we generally give much thought about what to wear for a job interview. While we may not think too much about finding an apartment, we will indeed, more often than not, participate in a comprehensive critical thinking process when it comes to buying a house.
Therefore, it may be a relatively safe assumption to believe that critical thinking exists on a very slippery slope. If it does directly correspond to one’s value placed on a decision, then we must realize that this process is used in a million different ways, by a million different people, for a million different reasons, to achieve a million...

Critical Thinking

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