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The Critical Thinker

Ali Almossawi
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A newsletter for curious minds. Practical ideas about how to reason and think clearly.

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Measuring Something Doesn’t Make It Important

Issue No. 62

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The year is 1961. John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense is a numbers guy called Robert McNamara. A former accounting professor who crunched numbers for the Army Air Forces during WWII, then joined Ford as one o...

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Bad Teeth

Issue No. 61

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Do you ever notice people’s teeth when you’re watching something on screen or looking at a picture in print? Teeth. It’s remarkable how they can be a low-cost means to get us feeling a certain...

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Counterfactual Thinking

Issue No. 60

I started noticing something while playing soccer. For a few of us on the field, if ever we miss a shot on goal, we have a tendency to vocalize what we should have done in order to put the ball in the back of the net.1 Should...

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Understanding is Built, Not Sent

Issue No. 59

This week’s topic brings together three ideas from different disciplines.


Idea 1. I was reading a passage about film editing from the early 1900s in which a filmmaker is retelling the story of an experiment he and his...

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Field Notes on Thinking Clearly

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    Writer of books on critical thinking (Bad Arguments, Bad Choices, Loaded Language, The Point of Pointless Work)

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