I haven’t thought about it like that, but now that you’ve made me, it makes a lot of sense.
Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking?
Triasha@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The average person has lots of critical thinking.
It’s just not a life hack to truth. You can critical think yourself into any conclusion. The average person uses critical thinking to reinforce their biased instead of challenge them.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Triasha@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s bleak, but if you want to persuade a large number of people to think differently, you don’t challenge their worldview, you create new biases that they will then defend in their own.
See: trump’s constant repetition of blatant lies.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Sorry but that is wrong. You are using the textbook definition of confirmation bias.
Critical thinking “is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences.”
Triasha@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
All of that can be done, badly. Which is how people do it. See the discourse around any popular drama, people have the skills, they just use them in service of their own pre conceived notions.