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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] several threads on DCUM reveal an appalling ignorance of  ... business aircraft, and the basic operations of cell phones. what kind of "critical thinking," as the professor describes it, has led them to such beliefs. [/quote]
[u]Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses[/u] reported many colleges fail to improve critical thinking.  I don't see why humanities teach "critical thinking" better than other areas.

Some people consider themselves cultured if they know about ancient Greeks or Renaissance literature.  Many public intellectuals misunderstand basic economics from the 1800's.  They don't understand how public key cryptography can be secure.  They don't understand the 2022 Nobel Physics experiment that shows reality is not local.  They don't know how banks, hedge funds, and futures markets work.  There has been more change in science and culture in the past 100-200 years than in previous history.

[i]critical thinking and the way many of today’s academics define it can be traced back to the post-structuralist critical theories that invaded our English departments ... .  [D]econstruction ... has been profoundly influential, not only on English faculty but also on their colleagues in the other humanities and even the social sciences. (Consider, for example, the current popularity of ethnography, a form of social science “research” that combines fieldwork with subjective story-telling.)

Unfortunately, those disciplines are also where most critical thinking instruction supposedly occurs in our universities. (Actually, other fields, such as the hard sciences and engineering, probably do a better job of teaching true thinking skills—compiling and evaluating evidence, formulating hypotheses based on that evidence, testing those hypotheses for accuracy before arriving at firm conclusions. They just don’t brag about it as much.)
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https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/03/college-graduates-still-cant-think/[/quote]

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