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1.Why do businesses seek to hire employees with critical thinking skills?

2.What things prevent people and businesses from thinking critically?

3.Give your own real or hypothetical example of a Type I error that might occur in the workplace. Do not repeat an example from the reading.

4.Why is knowledge of the three levels of thinking (rhetoric, dialectic, reason) useful in business?

5.Is it possible for the “probability of knowing something” to be 1/1? What would that mean?

6.What is the contradiction between determinism and free will?

7.Contrast why laws of science are self-correcting and why laws based on dogma and axiom are not self-correcting.

8.Which of the “four religious attitudes toward the modern economic and social reality” do you think is most prevalent in the U.S. (or in your culture) today? Explain.

9.According to the author of these readings, how willing or reluctant should you be to point out “nonsense” in the workplace when you see it? Do you agree with the author?

10.Overall, does the author of these readings believe that business is scientific, or not? Give evidence. Do you agree?

Solution

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Critical thinking skills is the ability to have a clear and rational thought process about the conducts and beliefs. Critical thinking skills are very important to become successful in the long run.

Critical thinking skills enables the individual to enhance the experience and work completed because there will a better control of own learning. Businesses seek to hire employees with critical thinking skills because: -