Blog 3

I think evaluating critical thinking helped to explain the complex skills a person needs to become a great critical thinker. By evaluating how we think I realized that the skills you need, like interpretation, regulation, analysis, and inference, are very difficult to use. It was very difficult to get past my own bias and use these skills to have a good philosophical debate. I thought my strengths would be interpretation and evaluation. In Facione's article, it asked question like what does this mean? or is this a credible claim? I was able to answer these questions easily when reading my articles. The hard part for me was the self regulation and analysis. I had a hard time backing up some of my opinions. The Facione article asked questions about conflicting conclusions. I had a weakness here as well because I felt like I had different opinions on the different topics we discussed. I think I could overcome these weaknesses by evaluation my own options and organizing my ideas better. I could also use my strengths to evaluate multiple sources to see if they are valuable enough to use for an argument.