Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Engineers Get Into Trouble Because We Often - -

  • Jump to conclusions
  • Fail to think through implications
  • Loose track of our goal
  • Are unrealistic
  • Focus on the trivial
  • Fail to notice contradictions
  • Accept inaccurate information
  • Ask vague questions
  • Give vague answers
  • Ask loaded questions
  • Ask irrelevant questions
  • Confuse questions of different types
  • Answer questions we are not competent to answer
  • Come to conclusions based on inaccurate or irrelevant information
  • Ignore information that does not support our view
  • Make inferences not justified by our experience
  • Distort data and state it inaccurately
  • Fail to notice the inference we make
  • Come to unreasonable conclusions
  • Fail to notice our assumptions
  • Miss key ideas
  • Use irrelevant ideas
  • Form superficial concepts
  • Misuse words
  • Ignore relevant viewpoints
  • Cannot see issues from points of view other than our own
  • Are unaware of our prejudices
  • Think narrowly
  • Think imprecisely
  • Think simplistically
  • Think superficially
  • Think ethnocentrically
  • Think egocentrically
  • Think irrationally
  • Are poor communicators
  • Have little insight into our own ignorance
From Learning the Art of Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder in Rotman Management Winter 2014

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