Week 1 (Chapter 1: What is critical thinking & Park: Why we should Bulldoze the Business School)

Question 1

What is Critical Thinking

Answer 1

an approach to reading, thinking, and learning that involves asking questions, examining our assumptions and weighing the validity of arguments
- comes from the greek word Kritikos: to question

Why? (“TEST”)
to become more self-aware, curious, independent

Question 2

What is an argument and its parts?

Answer 2

backed up with reasoning/facts/evidence
Premise and Conclusion
Premises logically implies the conclusion

Question 3

Premises: A statement in an argument that provides reason or support for the ____?

Answer 3

conclusion

Question 4

What’s the Martin Parker: Why should we bulldoze the business school about? What is the Hidden Curriculum? Shared assumptions? (“TEST”)

Answer 4

Hidden Curriculum: teaches lessons implicitly by ignoring ideas/values and structuring tests/assignments in a specific way
- virtues of capitalism

Shared assumptions:
1. Market managerialism as desirable
2. Human Behaviour is best understood as rational egoism
3. Knowledge it sells is science

Question 5

Caveat emptor

Answer 5

Let the buyers beware

Question 6

Why should buyers beware of experts?

Answer 6

1. Their ideas are not reliable - popularity makes them believable
2. Experts disagree; their ideas contradict one another

Question 7

People will not seek out information that denies their belief is called:

Answer 7

confirmation bias

Question 8

The increase in false information online can be hard to tell the difference between ___ produced by ____ and ___ produced by ____ people

Answer 8

difference between content produced by experts and content produced by regular people

Question 9

False information can damage the reputation of ___

Answer 9

brands

Question 10

What are the steps to the Sponge?

Answer 10

1. A reader soaks up the information
2. Evaluating and judging critically ideas in business

Being a critical thinker goes beyond the level of being a passive sponge

Question 11

Dimensions of critical thinking? (5 parts)

Answer 11

1. Critical thinking is purposeful
   - central claims
2. Quality of the data and reasons that are available to support claims
   - Examine the quality of the evidence
3. Claims and the evidence are powerfully shaped by our basic assumptions and our viewpoints
   - underlying assumptions and values
4. Inferences about cause and effect
   - casual claims
5. In the way in which ideas are expressed in order to persuade readers
   - Techniques of Persuasion