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Ultimate Critical Thinking Test & foundations of critical thinking

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Yes, critical thinking is hard to define and a constant victim of debate. Educators and experts have attempted to define it in separate contexts. I’ll give some examples.

But first, do you want to know if you can think critically? Take the test below.

Critical thinking test

Bloom’s taxonomy, philosophy & logic, system 1 and system 2 thinking, common sense, relevant information processing, mental sets & past experience, cognitive abilities.

Instruction: Give precise answers in the form of single words or numbers.

Format: 9 questions

Critical thinking

The ultimate test of critical thinking

Test your critical thinking as defined in psychology using only common sense and logic. No subject matter knowledge needed.

1. Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk Silk. What do cows drink?

Did you think "milk"? The word silk primed your brain to find a response related to a cow, which activated the concept of milk because milk is more related to cow + silk than water!

Water, yaaas!

Bonus <3 for you for saying "liquid", technically not wrong!

2. If you are running a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?

OOoooo, you missed a key detail, didn't you? - there is still one person ahead of you!

Correct, now overtake the first one!

3. Emily’s father has three daughters. The first two are named Monday and Tuesday. What is the third daughter’s name?

You could've been right in the Addam's Family universe 🙂 It's Emily, the first detail!

Yaaaaaassss, correct!

4. If you were born 14 years ago, how old would you be?

Ooops, think - born 14 years ago. That means you are 14!

5. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

Wrong. Try thinking again, the intuitive answer is wrong. Try visualizing a room of 100 machines working simultaneously. . . . . . . Correct Answer: It would still take 5 minutes. Each machine can make a widget in 5 minutes, regardless of the number of machines.

Correct! You could think critically.

The time doesn't change. Each machine can make a widget in 5 minutes, regardless of the number of machines.

6. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Are you sure? Think again, the intuitive answer is not the right answer! . . . . . Correct Answer: The ball costs $0.05, and the bat costs $1.05. This makes the total $1.10.

Correct! You could override your intuition!

The ball costs $0.05, and the bat costs $1.05. This makes the total $1.10.

7. What weighs more, a kilogram of iron or a kilogram of feathers?

Oooops! Our intuitive brain associates iron with high density solids making our perception heavier. Feathers are associated with being light for their size. Both are declared to be a kilogram, a measure of weight (heaviness), so they are equal!

Correct, they are the same, a kilogram each!

8. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?

You took 2! I'm sure you once studied the other type of questions that ask for how many remained instead of how many you gained.

Good, you focused on the wording!

9. There is a patch of lily pads in a pond. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire pond, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the pond?

Wrong, visualize the days going on fast 1 by 1. When will it be half the size? . . . . . . . Correct Answer: 47 days. Since the patch doubles in size each day, if it covers the entire pond on the 48th day, it would cover half the pond on the 47th day.

Correct! It is 47 days, not 24! Since the patch doubles in size each day, if it covers the entire pond on the 48th day, it would cover half the pond the day before!

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Thank you for taking it, critical thinking usually just comes down to reflecting on what you read and think and then re-analyzing it slowly!

Wasn’t that fun! Share it and test your friends 🙂 It’s not as easy as it appears. Many experts across all domains fail at this, often when they are tired or on autopilot.

Now, let’s look at the psychology of critical thinking. What exactly is it?

Foundations of critical thinking

The famous Bloom’s taxonomy, widely used as an educational guideline, has 6 layers of cognitive development that education must facilitate. The 4th and 5th layers approximate critical thinking. They are “analyzing” and “evaluate.” Both layers are also commonly put under the umbrella of Higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) because they are effortful ways to process information. Evaluation is mostly about passing judgment on information. Analyzing is mostly about computing and comparing ideas. Both are about taking some information and processing it in a way that simplifies a problem and lets one create a solution. But this isn’t enough. Maybe in its best version, it involves critical thinking. But its weaker version is just deliberate thinking, which may not be critical. For example, a teacher may ask students to evaluate patterns across different mammals near human civilization (like the females produce milk, many mammals are eaten, etc.). This involves deliberate thinking but doesn’t invoke critical thinking. To make this a critical thinking task, a teacher can ask students to estimate characteristics humans do not have but are typical of mammals. This would change the subject of the activities to talking about technology and controlling the environment instead of “fetching” details about mammals.

Philosophy looks at critical thinking mostly from the logical perspective, where rules govern the correctness of an idea or flow of thought. In logic, critical thinking is about the premise, assumptions, internal consistency, and inference. Logic looks at critical thinking by asking the question – If the premise is true, does your conclusion correctly originate from the premise? Are you assuming something? Let’s explore all of it.

• Premise: It is a statement of information. It may or may not be true. Critical thinking means questioning it’s true-ness.
• Assumption: It is information not explicitly given to you, but you’ve considered it as background information or context to help you process the problem and solution. Critical thinking means spotting assumptions.
• Internal consistency: It is the correctness of logic within a premise. Critical thinking is observing if an argument or idea is internally consistent. TOMM example: I was using AI to make a thumbnail for this article, and it gave me an image of a skyscraper office with a transparent glass room with 2 suns shining through the panes. Makes no sense on earth, right? The image isn’t internally consistent with the earth’s reality. Yes, this could be another planet. But I don’t have alien friends to DM me this image.
• Conclusion: It is derived from the premise as a logical statement or solution. Critical thinking means working out if your conclusion is correct as per the details in the premise.

In other cases, asking questions is treated as the first step to critical thinking. The common advice is to ask and verify things by asking How, Why, When, What, Where, and Who.

Related : The science of good observation skills

Cognitive psychologists look at critical thinking mostly from a system 1 (intuitive) and system 2 (analytical) thinking perspective. A popular way to understand critical thinking is to measure how people can suppress system 1 thinking, which is fast and automatic, and use system 2, which is slow and deliberate. In shifting from system 1 to system 2, a person re-evaluates the information and draws conclusions. A person might instinctively stereotype a stranger (System 1) based on looks but then use critical thinking to challenge and reassess these initial judgments (System 2).

System 1 thinking is intuitive + feeling. System 2 thinking is deliberate and analytical. When a question has a wrong answer using system 1, finding the right answer using system 2 is a test of critical thinking.

The famous cognitive reflection test (whose questions I’ve added to this quiz) pits system 1 against system 2, and it defines critical thinking as the ability to suppress system 1 thoughts and override them with system 2 thoughts.

Common sense cares more about having the right logic (not some logic), assumptions, and context. It is a simplified version of critical thinking. It is having an economical and contextually correct thought. I’ll show you how common sense is contextual.

During my early guitar-playing days, I watched videos of people playing very fast. They attracted many naysayers because it was unbelievably fast so they assumed the videos were sped up. So the guitarists started adding a clock in the background. A lot has happened since then. Almost 20 years later, guitarists’ skills have reached new heights. Many of the new young adults playing guitar who naturally believed guitarists have speed game wonder on Instagram comments – why is there a clock in every video? And some old-timer is always there to insult, “RIP Gen Z commenters, you lack common sense. DUH, it’s to show the video is not sped up.” Common sense comes from context and finding a simple connection between different things you observe.

Just thinking hard isn’t enough. Humans require context for thinking accurately. We fail miserably at logic when we treat it like logic, but rarely make mistakes when that logic is in a context. I explore that in depth here . Context always matters in the real world.

For example, let’s say A > B > C. (A is greater than B and B is greater than C)

D may or may not be greater than B. Is D smaller than A?

Compute that. Or, compute it with the context below.

A human (A) is larger than a monkey (B) which is larger than an amoeba (C). Sharks (D) may or may not be larger than a monkey (B). Are humans (A) larger than sharks (D)? The question can’t be answered with certainty because some humans could be smaller than a shark and some could be larger.

Answering the second version is easier for most because it allows people to imagine the problem in a context. The logical format is very easy to solve, but it is symbolic and much harder to imagine.

Worked-out problems are easy to think about, so practice can make perfect. Like problems in a math exam or algorithmic thinking. If you solve enough, you know how to solve similar new ones. It becomes easier to spot what you know and what you don’t know. But that is because the practice material is a set of well-defined problems. This is not the case in the real world. IRL problems are ill-defined. And most people, including whole organizations, have to first formulate the problem they need to solve. So, critical thinking begins first by identifying relevant information and ignoring irrelevant information. This is the classic idea of finding the signal in the noise.

Every scenario, question, or problem has relevant information called “the signal” and irrelevant information called “the noise.” A critical thinker’s job is to judge the scenario, and classify information as signal vs. noise, and then use the signal to think clearly. The irrelevant information can have a strong influence on us, so the thinker has to block it out. For example, in war scenarios, the weather conditions that suit a certain people can create an advantage against invaders. In this case, the weather condition is a part of the signal. The invader’s war funding status might be the noise. What good is the battle equipment budget in determining the outcome if it can’t even be used in a certain climate?

But, identifying the signal from the noise is not enough either.

Humans are not computers that reboot and start on a clean slate. We exclusively rely on memory and past learning. There is a carry-over effect from what we are used to. That means if we solve one type of problem for days, we will tend to solve another new problem the same way. In the same way, if we only know how to use a hammer, everything will feel like a nail.

But the story doesn’t end there either. I’m not being dramatic, but critical thinking has so much more to it. We come with a “ mental set [1] “. A mental set describes how our approach to a previous problem can shape our approach to the next (similar to priming, but this is more about learning than temporary influence). For example, if you’ve been working on statistical problems all day, you might initially approach a creative task by seeking patterns and data, even when this approach isn’t suitable. Recognizing and adjusting our mental set is a key aspect of critical thinking. We apply an approach from our previous task to another task. I’ll give you another example. If you are doing a sales job dealing with people and understanding social details like what people say, how they dress, etc., and then you immediately watch a TV show, your focus will go to the social details of the characters in it. This means the mental set from your job continued for your TV sesh.

Even experts who have solved problems a certain way for decades will fail to see a simpler solution that you can find with critical thinking. This is the infamous expert paradox called the Einstellung effect.

The brain didn’t come equipped with software. It came equipped with a few core abilities that let us build the DIY personal software to tackle new problems. They are commonly called “ executive functions ,” and 3 of them are most relevant for critical thinking.

• Attention: The information that gets prioritized by the brain. It’s deliberate (focus) and automatic (distraction).
• Cognitive flexibility: It manages our capacity to switch contexts, jump between ideas, and return to something we’ve thought about. It’s the executive person who juggles between different brain circuits and ideas.
• Inhibitory control: Our brain knows what flow of thought to stop or continue. Response inhibition is the capacity to stop an idea and revisit it, a very critical component of critical thinking.

Core cognitive functions are applied to details given in a situation and what you have learned. The whole thinking becomes thinking about thinking, called “ Meta-cognition .” So critical thinking is a metacognitive skill. It’s a slower process where speed is de-prioritized than detailed analysis. It’s effortful and mentally exhausting, so staying critical for hours and days is hard. This is exactly when being a practiced expert helps . The critical thinking elements in a particular skill set are repeated so many times that they are like a mental habit. There is a clear sign from a brain-imaging study [2] . As a skill is practiced more and more, it stops relying on executive functions and uses long-term memory. Conversely, new problems demand the use of executive functions – attention, memory, and decision-making – which are needed for critical thinking instead of long-term memory. This is why we observe it is easier to think critically about unfamiliar problems.

The biggest threats to critical thinking are cognitive biases. They are thinking tendencies that use very little information to draw conclusions at a fast rate. They are most activated when we mundanely move through life as we make fast decisions. Here are some examples and how you can counter them . But I’ll cover 3 cognitive bias threats I feel are the most significant.

• Belief bias: The belief bias is best summarized as “If it feels right, it must be right.” People will buy into any wrong logic if it superficially sounds believable. For example, if someone tells you fish belong in water, so eating fish and milk together is bad because their bodies are not adapted for milk, you might believe it. After all, the fish didn’t evolve in milk. So maybe it’s true. Critical thinking is asking – What does the fish’s habitat have anything to do with our body’s ability to digest the combination?
• Confirmation bias: Confirmation bias is as it sounds – we seek information that confirms what we know, and we ignore information that doesn’t fit into our preconceived notions. For example, if you google “Why is meat bad for health?” you’ll get answers confirming it’s bad. But if you google “Why is meat good for health?” you’ll still get answers confirming it is good.
• Anchoring: Anchoring is having some reference point that guides our estimations based on that anchor. For example, if the average coffee costs $5, we believe $6 is ok but $9 is too much. Our perception is anchored to $5. But if the anchor were $10, we’d be fine with $9.

Related: 7 Attention biases that are killing your observation skills

So, how do we combine these core ideas into the concept of critical thinking?

Ok. I’ll define it this way.

Critical thinking is a purposeful way to think about details and suppress past/immediate influences that may misdirect us. The tools to achieve this are: questioning assumptions, isolating details of a problem, and taking a step back from “what feels right”. It almost always requires challenging some details and/or challenging your own perception of a problem.

That sums up knowing what critical thinking is. Regarding improving it, I recommend a ground-up approach through everyday activities listed here. If you only solve critical thinking problems, you’ll benefit, but you’ll also succumb to the mental set problem.

P.S. The questions are from the cognitive reflections test, a test of critical thinking that does not require domain knowledge and some trick questions I found on Instagram. I do not know the source of some questions. But, each question is derived from 1 or more of the theories that explain critical thinking.

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Moment to moment, most thinking happens automatically. When you think critically, you deliberately employ any of the above intellectual tools to reach more accurate conclusions than your brain automatically would (more on this in a bit).

What is Critical Thinking?

refer to abilities to be open-minded, mindful, and analytical, and to evaluate, question, reason, hypothesize, interpret, explain, and draw conclusions.

refer to abilities to be close-minded, mindful, and analytical, and to evaluate, question, reason, hypothesize, interpret, explain, and draw conclusions

Critical thinking is the opposite of regular, everyday thinking.

How important is critical thinking in the classroom?

Not important

Slightly important

Very important

Which one is NOT part of the 7 critical thinking skills?

Problem Solving

Close-mindedness

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• 8. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt If an electric train moves north at 160km / h and a 16km / h wind blows west, where does the smoke go? there is no smoke From north to south from south to north upwards
• 9. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt What goes up and down, but always stays in the same place? the stairs your feet your fingers your back
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• 12. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly? Dictionary Phenomenon Entrepreneur Incorrectly

Which option is NOT a quality of a Critical Thinker?

Active Thinker

Self-Confident

Good Analysts

Which option is the correct process for Critical Thinking?

Designing, Prototyping, and Testing

Analyzing, Experimenting, and Observing

Gathering Information, Analyzing, and Finding a Solution/Conclusion

Gathering Information, Analyzing, and Evaluate

Critiquing your brain

Evaluating ideas

Testing Skills

Thinking in a critical way

When do uncritical thinkers get defensive?

When someone opposes them

All the time

When someone agrees with them

Which situations can critical thinking help?

School related

All of the above

Work related

Which answer is NOT a basic guideline for critical thinking?

Evaluate your opinions

Withhold judgement

Test your brain

Critical thinking has

interprets meaning

solves problems

Core critical thinking skills are (Interpretation, analysis, evaluation, explanation, self regulation). find the missing skill

problem solving

Inference as a core critical thinking skill is to identify elements needed to draw reasonable conclusion

Is this deffinition correct ? “ Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.”

Yes, it is.

No, it isn't.

What do you think about the following statement? Does it work at your school during the educational process ?

"Your teachers in high school won’t expect you to remember every little fact about his subject. They can fill in the details you’ve forgotten. What they will expect, though, is for you to be able to think ; to know how to make connections between ideas and evaluate information critically."

Here are a few key basic questions you can ask when approaching any problem:

What do you already know? How do you know that? What are you trying to prove, disprove, demonstrated, critique, etc.? What are you overlooking?

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Critical thinking definition

Critical thinking, as described by Oxford Languages, is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.

Active and skillful approach, evaluation, assessment, synthesis, and/or evaluation of information obtained from, or made by, observation, knowledge, reflection, acumen or conversation, as a guide to belief and action, requires the critical thinking process, which is why it's often used in education and academics.

Some even may view it as a backbone of modern thought.

However, it's a skill, and skills must be trained and encouraged to be used at its full potential.

People turn up to various approaches in improving their critical thinking, like:

• Developing technical and problem-solving skills
• Engaging in more active listening
• Actively questioning their assumptions and beliefs
• Seeking out more diversity of thought
• Opening up their curiosity in an intellectual way etc.

Is critical thinking useful in writing?

Critical thinking can help in planning your paper and making it more concise, but it's not obvious at first. We carefully pinpointed some the questions you should ask yourself when boosting critical thinking in writing:

• What information should be included?
• Which information resources should the author look to?
• What degree of technical knowledge should the report assume its audience has?
• What is the most effective way to show information?
• How should the report be organized?
• How should it be designed?
• What tone and level of language difficulty should the document have?

Usage of critical thinking comes down not only to the outline of your paper, it also begs the question: How can we use critical thinking solving problems in our writing's topic?

Let's say, you have a Powerpoint on how critical thinking can reduce poverty in the United States. You'll primarily have to define critical thinking for the viewers, as well as use a lot of critical thinking questions and synonyms to get them to be familiar with your methods and start the thinking process behind it.

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Sales Development Representative, Austin, September 2024

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Your Future Starts Now

Are you interested in joining us as a Sales Development Representative? Thrive in this crucial role!

Oracle is the #1 global provider of business software, with a market-leading presence in over 175 countries. Our cloud solutions are redefining the world of business, empowering governments, and helping society evolve with the pace of change. Join our team as a Sales Development Representative to kick-start your sales career with comprehensive and continuous training and development beginning in the classroom and extending to on-the-job learning. You will connect the biggest enterprises of today with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow. Oracle employees enjoy competitive salaries, excellent health benefits, and a network of like-minded co-workers that drive innovation across the entire technology industry.

Description

As a Sales Development Representative, your initial training consists of a multi-week, comprehensive curriculum where new hires begin to learn consultative selling skills and Oracle solutions. This serves as the base of new hire learning and provides you with the tools to make an instant impact as part of a highly collaborative sales team. Oracle provides continuous training and coaching throughout your career. Come and join us!

What You’ll Bring

Let’s see what you can achieve when you dare to be yourself. What we are looking for:

• Financially motivated and committed to a long-term career in sales
• Bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher preferred
• 0-3 years of related work experience and/or applicable coursework, philanthropy, extra-curricular, etc.
• Competitive with a strong work ethic
• Demonstrated resilience
• Coachable & intellectually curious
• Persuasive, professional, and prepared
• Strong written and verbal communication

This role is an in-office role

Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position

Career Level – IC0

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

A challenging, exciting role that will test your sales skills, tenacity and prospecting skills, critical thinking capabilities, ability to remain focused, and follow-through. You will be provided the tools, training, coaching, and people resources to help you be successful. Upon territory assignment, you will qualify and promote leads for new prospects and/or existing customers to the Oracle sales team with defined next steps. The Sales Development Role is a sales role that is generally eligible for incentive compensation contingent upon achieving specified objectives.

Join a professional workplace where you’ll improve your skills and build a solid professional foundation. As a Sales Development Representative you will:

• Build sales pipeline using cold calling methodologies and social selling
• Build a strong foundation of industry competence, Oracle product knowledge & sales methodology that will provide credibility when interacting with decision-makers
• Develop sales skills vital to identify and qualify new business opportunities and/or expansion/upsell opportunities
• Collaborate with the sales team on go-to-market strategy, demand generation activities and targets
• Ensure all data is accurately maintained and updated in the Oracle CRM applications

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $18.41 to $28.80 per hour; from $38,300 to $59,900 per annum. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 65/35 – 90/10.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.

When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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