{"id":6510,"date":"2020-01-24T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:58:33","slug":"faculty-article-barriers-to-critical-thinking-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/faculty-article-barriers-to-critical-thinking-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Barriers to Critical Thinking Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eight Barriers to Critical Thinking<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Part 2 of 2<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>by Mike Saxton, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a previous blog article, I presented the first four of eight critical thinking barriers that I caution my students about at the beginning of each term. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/faculty-article-barriers-to-critical-thinking\/\"><u>Click here to go to Part 1 of \u201cEight Barriers to Critical Thinking.\u201d<\/u><\/a>) Below we examine the remaining barriers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ad Homonym<\/em><\/strong><strong> Fallacy<br \/>\n<\/strong>Admittedly, this is an area in which I myself could use improvement \u2014 evaluating a statement based on who said it instead of on the merits of the statement itself. In this case, people accept a statement as true, simply because they like or respect the person who said it (regardless of whether the statement <em>is<\/em> actually true). In contrast, they reject a similar statement when it comes from a person they do not respect. I experienced this once when I agreed with a co-worker about a change in staff training. The rest of the staff went along with the idea, simply because both of us had done well with training in the past. This change, which involved extended training hours, did not go over well, however. Fortunately, we were able to roll it back in future trainings, but we should not have implemented the change in the first place because we had not explored all the possible outcomes and risks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heavy Reliance on IQ<br \/>\n<\/strong>For many years, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was the single measurement used to determine a person\u2019s intelligence. Fortunately, over the years, it has been widely accepted that intelligence has multiple dimensions. The relatively familiar model from Gardner\u2019s Theory of Multiple Intelligence lists eight, but I\u2019ve seen others identified, like Spiritual Quotient (Taheri Lari &amp; Ahmadian, 2012). We can no longer look at intelligence from just one perspective. Unfortunately, despite vast research into other forms of intelligence, some individuals and companies still rely on the IQ measurement. Dependency on a single dimension of intelligence can cause managers to miss out on someone who could have been an excellent employee because that individual was gifted in an area that went unmeasured. Goodwin University\u2019s commitment to the Universal Design for Learning model of pedagogy empowers learners to demonstrate their mastery of knowledge in ways that best relate to their thinking preferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Universality of Experience<br \/>\n<\/strong>Whenever I discuss this topic, I find some people get defensive. Nothing here is meant to indicate that experience is not to be valued. Experience has its place, but should not be relied on solely.<\/p>\n<p>How many times have we heard \u201cin my experience\u201d as a precursor to an argument that the individual expects to be accepted? The issue is that one individual\u2019s experience is not necessarily a representative sample of what happens outside of that person\u2019s sphere of influence. Research studies can easily yield results in direct contrast any single person\u2019s own experience, even if it was vast. Everyone is different. Geographical regions are different. On a personal level, \u201cexperience has taught me\u201d that the more I learn, the more I realize I do not know!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appeals to Authority<br \/>\n<\/strong>This fallacy probably concerns me the most: blind, or near-blind, acceptance of someone\u2019s view or assertion based on their level of authority. Think of the \u201cformal\u201d authority of the president of a company who claims to understand the organization\u2019s environment but presents no real evidence of this knowledge. It\u2019s similar to the <em>ad homonym<\/em> fallacy but is based more on the person\u2019s position than respect or admiration. I have been seeing this fallacy in practice quite often lately.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask what the problem is with accepting the viewpoint of an \u201cexpert.\u201d The truth is, there is nothing wrong with accepting the viewpoint; the problem comes when we are not allowed to question it.<\/p>\n<p>In the scientific world, experts seldom agree. That is what pushes science forward \u2014 disagreement sparks additional research. The idea that we must take a single opinion as solid fact is absurd. What we need to do is evaluate. Ask yourself: have you ever sought a second opinion on a medical condition because the first one did not sit well with you? Have you ever taken your car to a different mechanic because the first one seemed off? You do not have to be an expert or in a position of authority to ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>Questions you should regularly ask:<br \/>\n\u201cDoes this person have an agenda?\u201d (The answer is often yes.)<br \/>\n\u201cAre there reasonable, alternative explanations, or options that this person (or group) is ignoring?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIs this person telling me what I want to hear as opposed to the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The desired takeaway from this blog article is that there is far more that we do not know than what we do. As Mark Twain said, \u201cIt\u2019s not what you know that kills you. It\u2019s what you know for sure that ain\u2019t so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taheri Lari, M., &amp; Ahmadian, E. (2012). Spiritual quotient and entrepreneurship (A case study). I<em>nterdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>(5), 881-891.<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/majors\/management-leadership\/\">Click here to learn more about Goodwin\u2019s Management and Leadership offerings.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Barriers to Critical Thinking Part 2 of 2 by Mike Saxton, PhD In a previous blog article, I presented the first four of eight critical thinking barriers that I caution my students about at the beginning of each term. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/faculty-article-barriers-to-critical-thinking-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight Barriers to Critical Thinking Part II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079],"tags":[1123,268,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-6510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academics","8":"tag-faculty-article","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-management-and-leadership","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>8 Barriers to Critical Thinking | Part II | Goodwin University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bias and fallacy can hurt your ability to think critically and have fruitful discussions. 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