…Critical thinkers listen carefully to statements and, when there is reason for skepticism, they question whether what they hear is true or accurate. A statement describing an implication, assumption, inference, or the very question we are…

…Indicators based on a major confirmed commitment of forces are most likely to reflect the true situation. Step 4: Use Indicators 4-53. Indicators provide an objective baseline for tracking events, instilling rigor in the analytic…

…This line of thought asserts that a premise must be true because people have always believed it or done it. Alternatively, it may conclude that the premise has always worked in the past and will thus…

… Draw a circle and allocate slices of the circle or “pie” where the relative size of the slice of pie for a hypothesis represents how likely the analyst believes it is true.  Assign numbers…