How deeply an anaesthetist should sedate an elderly person when they have surgery is a controversial issue, because some studies link stronger doses of anaesthetic with earlier deaths. So it should ...

Investigations into ethical judgments generally seem fuzzy as to the relevant research domain. We first attempted to clarify the construct and determine domain parameters. This attempt required ...

Choose appropriate methods or models for a given problem, using information from observation or knowledge of the system being studied. Employ quantitative methods, mathematical models, statistics, and ...

Even cockatoos draw conclusions Smart cockatoos infer by exclusion Date: August 26, 2015 Source: University of Vienna Summary: If there is a certain pool of choices and we can exclude A and B, we ...

This set of exercises may help enhance your critical thinking, with a focus on the skill of inference.

At the beginning of 2021, I posted a piece on this blog asking if any readers wanted to develop their critical thinking as a kind of New Year’s resolution. In light of the positive feedback I received ...

(KUTV) Salt Lake City -Have you ever jumped to conclusions, made assumptions about someone else or had someone jump to conclusions or make assumptions about you? Perhaps you have been in a ...