Critical Thinking

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Group Members
● MUCHANNAPALLI CHANDU 19BME7023
● M DHEVESH KANNAN 19BME7024
● V SOMA SATWIK 19BME7026
● CHITROJU RISHIT 19BME7027
● OMKAR VIJAY DHAVALE 19BME7028
● M VENKATESH 19BME7037
● YERRAMSETTY SASI KIRAN 19MIS7027
● SHAIK SABIHA 20BCD7009
● PULLELA PHANINDRA 20BCD7145
● MUNGARA CHARAN TEJA 20BCI7156
What is Critical
It is the process of analysing a topic
or a problem deeply based on relevant

Thinking?
information.
How to think Critically?

● Identify an issue or a problem.

● Understand the reason behind a problem and its
solution.
● Research and collect data or information on the issue.
Sort and organise findings and data.
● Develop and implement solutions.
● Analyse the success and failure of different solutions.
● Identify ways to refine solutions.
Who is a good critical thinker?

● One who is not guided just by emotions

● One who considers all the evidence at hand and follows the route that
the evidence points towards
● One who is in search for the best explanation
● One who is free from motives or biases
● One who is aware of her own prejudices
● One who is fair and open minded
● One who is guided by reason
How to become a critical thinker?
To develop critical thinking skills you need time, patience and practice. Apply these six steps
to every problem you face to practice critical thinking:
1. Find the exact cause
2. Collect data, suggestions and arguments
3. Be critical about data
4. Confirm significance
5. Conclude
6.Present or communicate
 Precision
Standards of It will make sure that your thinking is

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more specific and exact.

● Could you be more specific?

● Could you give more details?
● Could you be more exact?
 Clarity

Standards of
It will make sure that you have added
details and examples.

Critical Thinking ● Could you elaborate?

● Could you illustrate what do you
mean?
● Could you give an example?
 Accuracy

Standards of It will make sure that sure that your

thinking has facts and research to

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● How could we check on that?

● How could we test that? How do
we know this is true?
 Breadth

Standards of
It will make sure that you have
considered all the views of the problem.

Critical Thinking ● Do we need to look at this from

another perspective? .
● Do we need to consider another
point of view?
● Do we need to look at this in other
way?
 Depth

Standards of
It will make sure that have predicted
difficulties or problems with your
thinking.You image what could go

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it.
● What will make this difficult?
● Have you predicted different
possible outcomes?
● Have you looked ahead?
 Relevance

Standards of
It will make sure that your thinking is
directly related to central idea on the

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problem your working on.

● How does this relate to the

problem?
● Does this answer the question?
● How does this help us?
 Logic

Standards of
It will make sure that you show your
thinking in a way that make sense to
others.

Critical Thinking ● Does your first paragraph fit in with

your last?
● Does all this make sense together?
● Does what you say follow from the
evidence?
 Significance
It will make sure that your thoughts is

Standards of
important to the central idea,problem or
question you are working on.

Critical Thinking ● Which of these facts are the most

important?
● Is this the most important thing to
consider?
● Is this the central idea to focus on?
 Fairness
It will make sure that you are aware of
Standards of the thoughts and ideas of others. You
do not ignore that facts disagree with

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● Am I representing the viewpoints

of others?
● Is my purpose fair in this
situation?
Barriers Of Critical Thinking
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Group Thinking
● Group Thinking is yet amongst the harmful
Barriers to Critical Thinking,plus it is also quite
unhealthy. In such a case, the person doesn't have
his own opinion or decision in any given case or
situation.

● To overcome the same, it requires the individuals

of the group to stand apart and question and
formulate their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.
Work Pressure
● We are overloaded with stringent deadlines in our
workplace and it does affect our skill of critical thinking.
But the silver lining is that a person can also sharpen his
critical thinking skills and abilities amidst the tough and
tight deadlines.

● When the time is short, and a deadline needs to be met,

we often go for an option of completing the work without
any strategic thinking and long term vision.
Egocentric Nature
● Egocentric nature or behavior is a natural tendency and is
many a time difficult to overcome.

● Such a barrier is making the person think about himself and

leads to the inability to not to sympathize with others to
understand their issues and problems.

● And one's ego can be one of the most significant Barriers to

Critical Thinking.
Fear
● Fear often acts as a barrier not only critical thinking but also for
the overall growth and development of a person. Fear makes him
unconfident, demotivated, and not very agile to think out of the
box and come up with the ideas and strategies.

● Fear can arouse out of the various reasons such as anxiety,

depression,self-esteem issues, and other such personal reasons
affecting a person's professional life as well.
Arrogance
● Arrogance is a bad attitude and often hinders with
critical thinking abilities. It makes a person with a closed
mindset and with an opinion that he knows everything
and there is no further need for learning new things.

● Arrogance makes the person fail on a long term basis as

he has closed his channels of learning and is unable to
assess the rewards and benefits of critical thinking.
Advantages of Critical Thinking

• It helps to improve decision making.

• Enhances problem solving ability.

• Refine your researching skills.

• Polishes your creativity.

• Stimulates curiosity.
 Imagine you are watching a runaway

The Trolley Problem trolley barreling down the tracks

straight towards five workers who
can’t escape.
That track has a worker on it, too, but You happen to be standing next to a
just one…What do you do? switch that will divert the trolley onto
Do you sacrifice one person to save five?
a second track.
 Its popular because it forces us to think about
how to choose when there are no good
choices……..Do we pick the action with the
best outcome or stick to a moral code that
prohibits causing someone’s death?

The Trolley Problem

 This time, you are standing on a bridge over
the track as the runaway trolley approaches.
Now there is no second track, but there is a
very large man on the bridge next to you. If you
push him over, his body will stop the trolley,
saving the five workers, but he’ll die.

The Trolley Problem

 Trolleyology has been criticized by some
philosophers and psychologists.They argue that
it doesn’t reveal anything because its premise is
so unrealistic that study participants don’t take
it seriously.

The Trolley Problem

Thank You
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