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Free Oxford Course: Critical Reasoning for Beginners
Posted: Dec 30, 2015
Link below. There are about 7 hours of lecture, so it's quite manageable, and the course has received excellent reviews.
Fill in a critical gap that seems no longer to be taught in school. To be missing these skills is to be helpless to deal with the many complexities of life, and subject to manipulation by others such as political candidates (which is why I posted this here). Just because we call this the "silly season" in the electoral cycle doesn't mean that WE have to be silly.
As you take the course, I think you'll find yourself wondering why in the world this wasn't a core part of your education - and everyone's education. (I think I know, but that's another discussion.)
With these skills under your belt, I have another free resource that will take them to the next level in the domain of intelligence analysis, i.e., making sense out of information that isn't "hard fact" - meaning, information that's less than complete, less than clear, has elements of ambiguity/uncertainty, or that is dynamic (changing over time).
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Hilarious (or sad) - people posting "dislikes" for a free course - on how to think. QED.
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Some think education is root of evil and the - mention of Oxford--
[ In Reply To ..]Ughhh, more than they can bear.
I wonder if the course covers what to do with people to whom you speak that have no basis of critical reasoning whatsoever.
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