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Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking

Critical thinking provides several techniques which can be used to assess the credibility of different sources and the evidence they provide (these techniques are known as credibility criteria). For example neutrality, when a source is neutral it means that its impartial ( it does not prefer one side or the other). So it does not manipulate evidence. Another example is vested interest, which is when someone can gain something by defending a specific point of view. This may led them to lie or to manipulate information. A vested interest can led to bias, which means to have a preference for something, seeing things in a particular way. We also can find expertise, this is evidence highly credible because its given by an expert on the subject (for instance doctors, lawyers, etc.). However, there are reasons to doubt their credibility for example sometimes experts get it wrong.  Reputation is what is generally thought about a persons character or an organization standing. One of the most known sources is eyewitness accounts which consists on the report of someone that personally observed the event. However their credibility can be lost. Corroboration consists of pieces of evidence which support each other. As regards selectivity, it is the choice of evidence used to support an argument. Finally if evidence is representative, it reflects all its evidence in a particular category.