This week we reviewed the idea of critical thinking. We did this as it is such a complex, yet useful tool, which will continue to help us beyond our degree.
Critical thinking can be applied to many different situations, and can aid you to make well-balanced decisions, considering bias and weighting. For example, when looking into the different newspapers available in the UK, it is easy to see how many of them have biased political views. However, if you approach each story/news article critically, you will recognise this bias, and will take a viewpoint/opinion away from it, unaffected by the bias.
Critical thinking can also help you to construct a well formulated and persuasive argument. A good structure is as follows:
- Formulate your question
- Gather your information
- Apply the information
- Consider the implications
- Explore other points of view (evaluate your choices)
Then we looked at comedians and how they utilise this structure to their performances. Very often their comedy is focused on a particular topic e.g global warming (George Carlin) [1]. They will convey their argument in the most convincing way (with comedy), in order to project influence over the audience.
[1] YouTube (2007). [online]. George Carlin - Saving the Planet. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c [Accessed on 28th February 2017]
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