Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking / [print]
M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.
- seventh edition.
- Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson Prentice Hall, (c)2004.
- xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Benefit of asking the right questions -- What are the issues and the conclusion? -- What are the reasons? -- What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- What are the value conflicts and assumptions? -- What are the descriptive assumptions? -- Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? -- How good is the evidence : intuition, personal experience, testimonials, and appeals to authority? -- How good is the evidence : personal observation, research studies, case examples, and analogies? -- Are there rival causes? -- Are the statistics deceptive? -- What significant information is omitted? -- What reasonable conclusions are possible? -- Practice and review -- Final word.